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Lester v. Minister for Planning and Infrastructure

Geography
🇦🇺 Australia / New South Wales
Year
0
Document Type
Litigation

About this case

Filing year
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Status
Dismissed
Geography
🇦🇺 Australia → New South Wales
Court/admin entity
Australia → New South Wales → Land and Environment Court
Case category
Suits against governments (Global) → Environmental assessment and permitting (Global) → Natural resource extraction (Global)
Principal law
Australia → Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW)
At issue
Challenge coal mining project

Documents

Filing Date
Document
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Summary

Applicant challenged the Planning Assessment Commission’s approval of a coal mining project on a number of grounds under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. The applicant alleged that the Commission’s decision was unreasonable because it was based on erroneous calculations of greenhouse gas emissions submitted in the application. Finding that the application had no merit, the court dismissed the application and ordered the applicant to pay the respondents' costs.