If Labor takes office after Saturday's election, Queensland's laws on impact assessment, planning, water, waste and offsets will likely change, and so too might the approach to drafting and enforcing environmental legislation.
The big four banks are under new pressure from activists to cease financing coal projects that could harm the Great Barrier Reef, while 'Lock the Gate' today sought a NSW Ombudsman's investigation into approval processes for mines.
Chevron Australia has revealed how Direct Action will affect its Gorgon LNG gas project, as it seeks approval for a fourth LNG train that could boost annual emissions to almost 7.7 million tonnes a year.
Queensland's Supreme Court will for the first time rule on whether the state's Environmental Protection Act obliges the environment department to consider emissions from coal burning, in a dispute over approval of Hancock Coal's Alpha mine.
Directors on the majority of public boards lack sufficient knowledge of environmental risk and are failing in their obligations in this area, says JB Were chairman Mark Joiner.
Companies risk costly failure if they don't design projects in a way that earns public trust, says businessman and activist Geoffrey Cousins, a leader of campaigns that blocked the Gunns pulp mill and Woodside's James Price Point LNG development.