Law NEWS - Environmental Law Update - Xstrata Greenhouse Update
In this update:
- Xstrata Greenhouse Appeal - Case sent for re-hearing
The Queensland Court of Appeal decided unanimously that fundamental problems in the way the Queensland Land and Resources Tribunal dealt with greenhouse-related objections when it decided an application by Xstrata for new mining rights at the Newlands coal mine mean that the objections have to be re-heard.
STOP PRESS
At 3.42pm today the Queensland Premier and the Queensland Mines Minister issued a joint press release saying that the State Government would legislate next week to guarantee operations at Xstrata's operations as a result of the ruling (referred to in the attached 'Environment Alert') that "on a legal technicality, could have stalled the mine's further development".
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