Browsing: <a href="/tag/qld">Queensland</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/climate-litigation">Climate litigation</a>

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.

The High Court has refused to consider whether Queensland's Appeal Court wrongly dealt with coal-burning emissions when hearing a dispute over GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine.

Queensland's Court of Appeal has rejected arguments that a lower court erred in assessing the harm caused by burning coal from GVK Hancock's proposed Alpha mine.

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the State Government approve Adani's Carmichael coal mine, but only if it improves its water monitoring and "controls or regulates" threats to an endangered bird species.

The Queensland Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to a Land Court decision that paved the way for GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine to clear state approval hurdles.

A Queensland farmer fined $118,000 for land clearing, has been refused special leave to argue before the High Court that the State's vegetation protection law was unjust.

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.

Xstrata Coal Qld has failed to secure a Land Court order that Friends of the Earth pay legal costs incurred by the company while it fought the environment group's unsuccessful challenge to mining leases and approvals for the proposed Wandoan coal mine.

Mining company Xstrata's main argument to justify a major Queensland coal mine - that 'if we don't sell the coal, someone else will' - employs the same reasoning drug dealers use to justify their actions, Australian Conservation Foundation president Professor Ian Lowe told a court hearing today.