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Woodside Petroleum said on Dec. 21 an environmental body had decided to challenge approvals given to the company to process gas at two offshore oil and gas projects in Western Australia.
The Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA) will legally challenge the government of Western Australia and Woodside in the state’s Supreme Court over approvals to process gas from the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG facilities, the company said in a statement.
The conservation group had said the state’s approvals for the facilities could allow billions of tons of carbon pollution from the company’s proposed Burrup Hub LNG expansion.
Woodside vows to vigorously defend green group s legal challenge of Burrup hub approvals
Woodside vows to vigorously defend green group s legal challenge of Burrup hub approvals
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The Conservation Council of WA is taking Woodside and Western Australia s environmental regulator to court to overturn changes to Burrup Hub approvals it says contravene the state s Environmental Protection Act.
But Woodside has vowed to defend the recent changes to approvals granted by WA s Environmental Protection Authority last year that allow for Woodside s Karratha and Pluto gas plants in the Pilbara to process gas from the Scarborough and Browse fields.
Energy giant loses Bylong coal mine appeal in win for anti-coal groups
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The NSW Land and Environment Court has upheld a decision by the stateâs Independent Planning Commission to reject a controversial coal mine planned for rich farmland north-west of Sydney.
Korean energy giant KEPCO had been seeking to overturn the decision in September 2019 to reject a proposed coal mine for the Bylong Valley because of âlong-lasting environmental, agricultural and heritage impactsâ.
Justice Nicola Pain dismissed the companyâs appeal on Friday finding the IPCâs refusal of the mine was lawful.
Rana Koroglu, a managing lawyer at the Environmental Defenders Office, which represented the alliance, said it was âa historic win not just for Bylong but for everyone working to limit global carbon emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate changeâ.
âWe could not be more pleased for the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance, who have fought courageously for five years to protect their beautiful valley from this mine,â she said.
âThe community provided robust scientific evidence to the IPC on the detrimental environmental, social and economic impacts of the proposal to build a new coalmine in a highly productive agricultural area.
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