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Apr 9, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
We’re representing @AusConservation and @MackayConsGroup in a major new court case which seeks the refusal of one of the biggest proposed new coal mines in Australia.

Learn more 👇 Image Our clients @AusConservation and @MackayConsGroup will argue the court should recommend no mining lease or environmental authority be granted for the Winchester South project due to its significant environmental and human rights impacts.

edo.org.au/2024/04/04/con…
Oct 30, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
#BREAKING: A Tiwi Traditional Owner is heading to the Federal Court in a bid to prevent Santos from building its Barossa gas export pipeline through ancestors’ burial grounds and Songlines, without proper assessment of significant risks to cultural heritage.

📸: Tymunna Clements Image Simon Munkara, a member of the Jikilaruwu clan, filed proceedings yesterday and applied for an urgent injunction to prevent Santos commencing pipeline work while the case is heard.

Read more below. 📸: Tymunna Clements edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
Oct 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
💧 #BREAKING: First Nations launch legal challenge against Commonwealth over consultation failures in Murray-Darling Water Resource Plan

EDO is proud to represent Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (@MLDRIN), a confederation of 20+ Murray-Darling Basin First Nations. Basin Nations have cultural and moral obligations to care for Country, including all waterways.

Activating their rights and knowledge systems will be critical to achieving healthy Country in the Murray-Darling Basin.

#waterislife #mdb #murraydarlingbasin
Oct 24, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: Six Tiwi elders have submitted an urgent application to Minister Tanya Plibersek to make a declaration to protect sacred Tiwi cultural heritage, which they say is at immediate risk of desecration from the construction of a pipeline for Santos’s Barossa Gas Project. Santos has announced that it intends to begin work on the pipeline as soon as this Wednesday, despite being aware of Tiwi concerns that it will traverse an area of significant underwater cultural heritage.

📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/24/tiw…
Aug 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: We're challenging the approval of a dangerous new coal seam gasfield

With up to 530 wells across more than 1,000ha of bushland, the gasfield could damage community groundwater, fuel climate change, jeopardise human rights and harm threatened wildlife. Image Coal seam gas is a risky, invasive form of unconventional gas mining.

Our client, Environmental Advocacy in Central Queensland, is concerned the @QldGov approved Blue Energy's new gasfield without a thorough environmental impact assessment.
Jul 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: We’re seeking an urgent injunction to save koalas

About a week ago, NSW Forestry Corporation started logging in areas of vital koala habitat in north east NSW. Image The forests were hit hard by the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires and are home to dozens of threatened species including koalas and southern greater gliders.
Dec 12, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
EDO is deeply concerned by the recent trend in harsh custodial sentences and heavy-handed policing against climate protestors in Australia.

🧵 below. edo.org.au/2022/12/13/edo… In response to a recent 15-month custodial sentence, with a non-parole period of 8 months, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly expressed alarm, stating that “Peaceful protesters should never be criminalised or imprisoned.”
Dec 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
#BREAKING: Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa has had his historic win over Santos’ Barossa Gas Project upheld by the Full Federal Court of Australia!

Today's decision sends a message to all gas companies that they cannot sideline First Nations peoples.

More to come. “We want the whole world to hear our voice.”

“We want the whole world to see our power.”

“We have fought to protect our sea country from the beginning to the end and we will never stop fighting.”

- Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa
Nov 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🎉#BREAKING: @YouthVerdict and @BimbleboxNR just won their historic legal challenge to Clive Palmer's proposed Galilee Coal Project on environmental, climate and human rights grounds! Almost three years ago, our clients launched their groundbreaking case against a dangerous, climate-polluting coal mine proposal.

It's the first time a coal mine has been challenged on human rights grounds in Australia.