MEDIA ALERT Lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia (EJA), representing Environment Victoria, Victorian National Parks Association and Save Westernport, are celebrating an environmental win with the Victorian government’s rejection of AGL’s plan for a floating storage and regasification unit off…
UN Human Rights Council Members Urge Australia to Adopt Stronger Climate Measures Now to Protect Human Rights San Francisco, USA / Sydney, Australia – All eyes were on Australia as…
MEDIA RELEASE During the UN periodic review of Australia’s human rights record, a coalition of Australian and international lawyers is asking the United Nations to address Australia’s contributions to human…
NT’s deal with gas company to cost consumers $2.7 billion and enable fracking The Northern Territory government has stitched up consumers in a gas pipeline deal with energy infrastructure company,…
What is EFIC? How is it relevant to Adani’s ambitions in Australia? Could EFIC’s directors be in breach of their duties if they finance Adani? David Barnden from EJA addresses…
Read EJA’s submission to the Interim Targets Independent Expert Panel examining Victoria’s climate change targets 2021-2030: EJA submission Victoria Interim Target Independent Expert Panel final (184KB)
On 18 April 2018 EJA lawyers Bronya Lipski and David Barnden appeared before Senate Standing Committee On Environment and Communications’ inquiry into the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Amendment (Carbon Capture…
By Phillip Coorey and Mark Ludlow Federal Labor has all but resolved to oppose the $16.5 billion Adani coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin but is grappling to come up…
By Claire Bickers BILL Shorten has suggested Queensland workers are being led on with fake promises about jobs that will never appear while further distancing federal Labor from the Adani…
By Christopher Knaus A second request for a federal loan to build a freight link supporting Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine has not been withdrawn, an inquiry has heard, but its…
By Toby Mann, Australian Associated Press A federal government body that administers $5 billion of public dollars could be in danger of flouting anti-money laundering laws, environmental advocates say. Environmental…
The environmental movement hopes to persuade Bill Shorten’s party to adopt a legal strategy to stop the mine By Katharine Murphy and Michael Slezak The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, on…
MEDIA RELEASE 1 February 2018 The federal government’s $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), which is understood to be considering a coal railway loan application from Aurizon, has not finalised…
Adani’s bid for a $1 billion taxpayer-funded loan may have been doomed even before it was scuppered by Queensland’s Palaszczuk Government according to the Government’s main economic advisory body, the…
MEDIA RELEASE 12 December 2017 The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) cannot loan public money to Adani’s Carmichael coal project without the consent of the Queensland Government, lawyers have confirmed….
A community legal service has urged Australia's consumer watchdog to crack down on Adani for misleading vulnerable jobseekers with inflated claims its Queensland mine will create 10,000 jobs. Environmental Justice…
MEDIA RELEASE 6 December 2017 Adani’s claim that its Carmichael coal mine project will create 10,000 direct and indirect jobs has been referred to the national consumer protection agency, the…
MEDIA RELEASE 10 October 2017 Lawyers have described the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund’s first investment – a loan for a port upgrade in Western Australia – as a new fossil…
Green groups have reacted angrily to the news that the federal government’s $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, or NAIF, has agreed to issue its first loan to a WA…
MEDIA RELEASE 12 April 2017 The company directors of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) are likely to be in breach of their duties if they approve a loan for…
The Turnbull government's Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility has agreed to issue its first loan, but the project still needs Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's tick of approval. The fund's board…
Subsidised loan to Onslow Marine Support Base is first from controversial $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility The expansion of a port in Western Australia’s north is the first project to…
MEDIA RELEASE 18 September 2017 Delta Electricity, the only company to have publicly declared an interest in buying AGL’s 46-year-old Liddell plant, has earned a ‘bad neighbour’ reputation by letting…
Environmental law group has accused Delta Electricity of underreporting emissions at its Vales Point power station and breaching licence conditions The only Australian company with a stated potential interest in…
For Charmian Eckersley, keeping the windows and doors of her home permanently sealed has become an everyday necessity. Eckersley and her husband have lived in the Lake Macquarie suburb of…
MEDIA RELEASE 16 August 2017 News that Adani is being investigated in India for allegedly siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars to offshore tax havens should put the brakes…
Consideration of loan described as ‘untenable’ after allegations hundreds of millions siphoned into tax havens The government should immediately suspend any consideration of a federal loan to Adani or an…
EJA has filed proceedings against the Commonwealth Bank on behalf of shareholders for failing to adequately disclose climate change risk in the bank’s 2016 annual report.
Any loan the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Naif) gives to Adani’s Carmichael coalmine project would likely be unlawful, according to the former head of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC),…
By Kim Shore The Finkel review does not explicitly put community power on the agenda. But community energy entrepreneurship could help deliver Finkel’s recommendations — especially distributed and independent power…
Dr Charlie Veron, known as the 'Godfather of coral' has written to the Australian Environment Minister asking him to revoke Adani's environmental approvals after two consecutive and widespread coral bleaching…
AS A self-made billionaire, Gautam Adani — the man behind Australia’s most controversial mine — is used to pulling off the impossible. Having risen from modest roots as a high-school…
The man known as the Godfather of Coral has called on the Turnbull Government to revoke its environmental approval for Adani's controversial $16-billion Carmichael coal mine proposal. A former chief…
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani says Australia's biggest ever coal mine is going ahead after his company announced a final investment decision on the Carmichael project. But environmental groups immediately…
Australia's first offshore wind farm off the eastern coast of Victoria could provide almost a fifth of the state's energy. The proposed plant would see 250 turbines built off the…
MEDIA RELEASE 14 May 2017 An investigation by Environmental Justice Australia has revealed alarming errors and under-reporting of toxic pollution from the five large coal-fired power stations in New South…
Karla Way-McPhail, who runs mining labour and equipment companies, will not say whether she will recuse herself from Carmichael decision A director of the independent board due to provide recommendations…
Two Commonwealth agencies considering a billion dollar loan to Adani have rejected any suggestion of slack governance standards. Environmental lawyers are concerned two of the agencies' board members are also…
Deputy PM says state Labor government ‘better start standing up for Queensland’, adding Carmichael coalmine could still go ahead despite legal questions Barnaby Joyce has condemned the Queensland government’s refusal…
MEDIA RELEASE 29 May 2017 Environmental Justice Australia lawyers have written to the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) – the body that is considering giving a $1 billion loan for…
Conflict of interest concerns have been raised about two board members of federal government bodies involved in the consideration of a billion-dollar loan to Indian mining giant Adani. Adani is…
Prospects for the controversial Adani coal mine have dimmed further after the Queensland government said it wanted no role in any federal loan to support the project. In a statement on Saturday,…
The future of Australia's biggest mining project in remote central Queensland is in doubt after the Queensland Government decided not to facilitate a potential $900 million federal loan. Indian coal…
MEDIA RELEASE 27 May 2017 A pledge by the Queensland government today means Adani’s plans to secure a $1 billion loan through the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) for a…
With Westpac out, Adani's proposed Carmichael mega coal mine looks in doubt again There's a lot of love for Westpac this Friday, and plenty of anger too. It's all because…
Complaint lodged over prospect of Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility partially funding 400km rail line A $1bn federal loan to builders of a railway line between the proposed Adani coalmine and…
Environmental lawyers have warned directors of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to not fund Adani's proposed coal railway in central Queensland because it is in breach of their duties….
Directors of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility are likely to be in breach of their duties if they approve a controversial $900 million government loan for a railway to serve the…
MEDIA RELEASE 6 April 2017 If the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) offered a $1 billion taxpayer-funded loan to support a private coal-hauling railway it would breach competitive neutrality principles,…
Adani Group is facing growing pressure to reveal which company in its complex corporate web has applied for a $1 billion subsided loan from the Australian Government, amid fears money…
Indian mining giant Adani has been criticised by a conservation group raising questions about its suitability to open it's central Queensland coal mine Adani's terrible international track record has raised…
MEDIA RELEASE 22 March 2017 Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) has written to the Bombay Stock Exchange, asking it to clear up confusion around which company is seeking Northern Australia Infrastructure…
23 February 2017 Victoria will soon have brand new climate laws thanks to the Victorian Parliament passing the Victorian Climate Change Bill today. We congratulate the Andrews Government on this…
Lawyers at EJA ready to brief NAIF Board of risks of $1B Adani rail loan A detailed legal research brief by Environmental Justice Australia, being launched today, reveals Indian based…
The Victorian Government has introduced the Climate Change Bill 2016 into Parliament which if passed will repeal the Climate Change Act 2010. The Government says this legislation will make Victoria a…
Retiring Hazelwood, Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power station, will have immediate health benefits for the local community in the Latrobe Valley, says Environmental Justice Australia in the wake of…
The imminent closure of Hazelwood, Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power station, will greatly improve community health in the polluted Latrobe Valley, says Environmental Justice Australia today in the wake…
Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Josh Frydenberg’s April 2016 statements on the health of Peabody’s Australian operations have been called into question following the release of its 2015 financial…
Wednesday 13/04/16 The Sydney Morning Herald | Michael West A report from Environmental Justice Australia has detailed six ways in which coal companies can sidestep their obligations for mine rehabilitation….
Sunday 10/04/16 The Guardian | Michael Slezack Landmark case may force minister to consider coal’s impact on reef and block new fossil fuel projects Here on Heron Island, you could…
14 April 2016 Today the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry report on rehabilitation of the Latrobe Valley coal mines was tabled in Parliament. The Inquiry was asked to investigate options for…
13 April 2016 A new report from Environmental Justice Australia’s Climate & Finance Program highlights six ways mining companies avoid paying for the rehabilitation of mine sites. “The report looks…
This is plain text version of the report. Read or download the full report here Introduction This report looks at six methods that coal companies operating in Australia currently use…
Environmental Justice Australia welcomes the findings and recommendations of the Independent Review into Victoria’s Climate Change Act. The Independent Review Panel’s report, released this morning, recommends the Victorian Government write…
10 February 2016 Today’s report from the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry contains some welcome recommendations, but does not go far enough. This part of the Inquiry looked at…
Thursday 10/12/15 James Carleton, RN Breakfast ABC Radio A second inquiry set up by the Victorian Labor Government into last year's Hazelwood Mine Fire in Victoria's La Trobe Valley has…
MEDIA RELEASE 9 November 2015 Lawyers are calling on the Australian and Queensland governments to properly scrutinise the track record of the Adani Group and its executive officers as revelations…
15 October 2015 Environmental lawyers have expressed grave concerns that Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure Project has been re-approved under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999…
Monday 07/07/15 Ian Kirkwood, Newcastle Herald RIO Tinto, its employees and its supporters have urged the Planning Assessment Commission to approve its plans for the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, saying…
Tuesday 09/09/15 ABC News The Planning Assessment Commission has been told millions of dollars in wages will be lost if the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine does not go ahead. A…
This submission addresses three topics in turn – environmental risks, public health risks, land-use conflicts and community rights. Also, in 2012 we prepared a comprehensive report detailing what, in our…
Media Release* *17 August 2015 * Environmental Justice Australia have today expressed alarm that the comments from Senator George Brandis on the Federal Court's ruling in the Carmichael coal…
The Victorian Government is making decisions now which will have the effect of increasing our emissions for decades. Examples include: the extension of the Urban Growth Boundary and associated transport…
Environmental Justice Australia in conjunction with CounterAct recently celebrated the launch of the Campaigners’ Handbook – for coal and gas campaigners.
In a letter dated 9 February 2015, Environmental Justice Australia have asked Jon Black, Director General of the Queensland Environment Department, to investigate the process by which Adani received their…
A new investigation by Environmental Justice Australia reveals that the Newman Government, in its rush to fast track Adani Mining’s application to operate the Carmichael mine, has overlooked Adani’s track…
New investigations by Environmental Justice Australia have revealed that the process by which Indian corporate giant Adani was signed off as a ‘suitable operator’ for the proposed Carmichael coal mine…
Who is Voices of the Valley? Voices of the Valley is an incorporated group of residents in the Latrobe Valley which formed in March 2014 during the mine fire due…
Indian environmental group, the Conservation Action Trust (CAT), has objected in the Land Court of Queensland to the approval of Indian giant Adani’s 60 million tonne per annum Carmichael coalmine….
Monday 15/09/2014 By Brendan Sydes,Climate Spectator The Victorian Government needs to rethink its rejection of the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry’s recommendation that air quality monitoring data be used to inform…
Tuesday 9/09/2014 Ben Kimber, Ararat Advertiser SCALING back or abolishing the Renewable Energy Target (RET) is not only a blow to regional communities and industry but Australia's efforts to combat…
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