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• New workshops on EEO scheme changes
  
• Energy policy disclosure dispute heads to Supreme Court
  
• ClimateWorks to release national progress report

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.

Xstrata's Ulan Coal has lost an important legal costs battle, with the NSW Land and Environment Court rejecting its argument that an activist group had acted unreasonably in seeking to overturn or modify approval for the mine's expansion due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

An Xstrata coal mine and the NSW Government have successfully relied on the looming carbon price scheme to argue against environment group demands that approval conditions should require the mine to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

Xstrata must offset some of its greenhouse gas emissions as a condition of planning approval to double the capacity of its Ulan coal mine, the NSW Land and Environment Court has found in a groundbreaking ruling.

• Victoria proposes new eligible business activities for energy efficiency scheme
  
• EPA witness disputes Dual Gas high-tech coal plant claims, Karoly weighs in
  
• TRUenergy makes each way bet with new Qld $3.6 billion gas power plant investment
  
• Penrice and GE explore ways to use coal seam gas brine
  
• Tasmania's large emitters to meet with State Government

In line with tribunal orders, EPA Victoria has released expert witness statements that it and Dual Gas will rely on in a legal dispute over the validity of the works approval granted for a gasified coal power plant.

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.

The Climate Institute says the clean energy bill should allow citizens to launch legal proceedings against companies and governments if there are breaches, while generators says the Government's package doesn't fix any of the problems that caused it to reject the CPRS.

• Closing arguments begin in Xstrata coal mine case
  
• Victorian Parliament passes landfill levies bill
  
• No prospect for an early carbon scheme link with NZ