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Queensland Conservation Council Inc. v. Xstrata Coal

País/Territorio
Australia
Fecha
Oct 1, 2007
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Nombre del tribunal
Court of Appeal
Sede de la corte
Queensland
Número de referencia
[2007] QCA 338
Resumen
An Australian state court reversed a lower tribunal’s decision, which granted an extension to Xstrata’s mining lease and denied Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) the ability to amend the conditions of the extension. The tribunal, concluding that the causal link between the mine’s greenhouse gas emissions and harms caused by global warming is an assumption, relied on evidence that was raised in neither Xstrata nor the QCC’s case. The court of appeals held that the tribunal, by merely informing the parties that it had become aware of documents which might be relevant to its decision, did not satisfy its obligation to afford the parties procedural fairness by giving them a real opportunity to present information or argument on a matter not already obvious but in fact regarded as important by the decision-maker.

Key environmental legal questions:

Appeal of tribunal decision granting extension of mining lease
Texto completo
Non-US_Queensland-CC-v-Xstrata-2007-QCA_338.pdf
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