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Fuel Retailers Association of Southern Africa v Director-General: Environmental Management, Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment, Mpumalanga Province and Others

Pays/Territoire
Afrique du Sud
Type de cour
Nationale - cour supérieure
Date
Jui 7, 2007
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Nom du tribunal
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Juge
Ngcobo
Numéro de référence
Case CCT 67/06, (2007) ZACC 13
Langue
Anglais
Sujet
Questions juridiques, Terre et sols, Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes
Résumé

This application for leave to appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal concerns the nature and scope of the obligations of environmental authorities when they make decisions that may have a substantial detrimental impact on the environment. In particular, it concerns the interaction between social and economic development and the protection of the environment.  It arises out of a decision by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment, Mpumalanga province (the Department), the third respondent, to grant the Inama Family Trust (the Trust)2 authority in terms of section 22(1) of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 (ECA)3 to construct a filling station on a property in White River, Mpumalanga (the property).  Constitutional Court was faced with the question whether socio-economic considerations should be taken into account in the consideration of an EIA application to establish a filling station.

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