Online Briefing: A look into EDO's major climate court cases

Join the Environmental Defenders Office for a special online briefing into two of Australia’s most important climate court cases in 2023. You’ll go behind-the-scenes with lawyers from our Safe Climate team to learn about the legal challenges to the Mount Pleasant coal mine and Beetaloo Basin gas fracking and find out what a win could mean for our climate. 

The case to stop NSW’s largest open-cut coal mine 
Kirsty Ruddock, Managing Lawyer, Safe Climate  
The Mount Pleasant mine expansion in the Upper Hunter will release 876 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, pollute the town’s air with toxic particles and threaten the survival of a rare species of legless lizard. 

Court challenge to fracking in the Beetaloo Basin 
Emma Buckley Lennox, Solicitor, Safe Climate 
Opening the Beetaloo up for gas production is incompatible with a safe climate. By approving an environment plan for exploration, the NT Government has laid the grounds for future fracking production potentially involving thousands of fracking wells to be drilled and fracked across the heart of the Territory.  

EDO’s Safe Climate team works to challenge harmful new coal and gas proposals. Join us to learn more about these important climate court cases.