Queensland strips funding from environmental legal service

Queensland Ends $500,000 a Year Funding Deal for Environmental Activist Law Firm

The Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) government has scrapped a key funding stream for the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) in the state. The EDO provides environmental legal aid for farmers and Indigenous communities, but the national body has been embroiled in controversy after being ordered to pay $9 million by the Federal Court. The EDO lost that case and was found by the judge to have coached witnesses in its lawsuit against energ…

Balmullo Quarry campaigners' legal threat forces environmental report into public domain

Fife Council planners have removed redactions from a report that campaigners claim shows a quarry expansion would "literally blow up" habitats.

Queensland strips funding from environmental legal service

Environmentalists across the country have been angered by the Queensland government’s decision to cut funding to the Environmental Defenders Office.

Environmental Defenders Office funding completely cut in Queensland

The office provides legal aid to those dealing with environmental and planning disputes and has received about $500,000 per year over the past five years from the Queensland government.

Experts warn of “significant new hurdles” for renewables, as LNP ends funding for EDO

LNP efforts to reform how renewables projects are regulated are in question after it broke a promise not to strip the Environmental Defenders Office of funding.

Greenpeace slams Govt for failure to commit to protecting rivers

Greenpeace Aotearoa is slamming the Government after Parliamentary Under-Secretary for RMA Reform, Simon Court, refused yesterday to commit to upholding Water Conservation Orders, which protect lakes and rivers. Speaking at the Environmental Defence Society’s annual conference, Simon Court refused to answer whether the Government would uphold existing Water Conservation Orders for rivers, as well as National Environmental Standards, under the Go…