environment Muswellbrook, Australia
High Court invalidates Mount Pleasant mine expansion approval
3judges
High Court judges who found in favour of the residents' group
The High Court ruled 3–2 that planners had to consider emissions from coal burned overseas when approving Mount Pleasant's expansion, invalidating the approval. The mine can operate until 2032 while MACH Energy pursues a new application, and officials dispute the ruling's wider significance.
- High Court of Australia
- Mount Pleasant coal mine
- Hunter Valley
- New South Wales
- Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group
- MACH Energy
- Woodside Energy
- Browse gas project
- Queensland
7 sourcesabc.net.au, The Guardian, Al JazeeraUpdated
Also: New South Wales
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Planning authorities are required to consider local climate change effects when approving fossil fuel projects.
7 of 7 sources“The court found NSW law required the IPC to “consider imposing conditions to minimise to the greatest extent practicable all greenhouse gas emissions, including Scope 3 emissions”.”