A Supreme Court judge has ordered Veolia to treat water from a mine, after hearing evidence that its refusal to do so has caused flooding and could affect coal supply to a power station.
The fact that Glencore uses land to offset the impacts of a coal mine, doesn't mean the local council can rate it as mining land, an Appeal Court has ruled.
New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.
A legal dispute between farmers hosting an ERF project and a couple seeking to mine for opals has ended with a court awarding the farmers modest compensation.