One expert says if the application reaches the courts, it may set an important precedent forcing the consideration of climate change in assessments of fossil fuel projects.
Environment Justice Australia lawyer Hollie Kerwin, who is representing the environment group, said times had changed since earlier decisions were made.
He says climate change is devastating traditional lands and waters around Minjerribah/Stradbroke Island.Quandamooka man Darren Burns says traditional lands and waters have been devastated by climate change.As the climate warms, the atmosphere is able to hold more water, which results in heavier rainfall. Heavy rainfall and flooding can wash sediment into the water, which smothers seagrass, the main food source for dugongs."We see that the mangroves are changing around here.
However, in each of the 19 projects, no assessment of how its activities would contribute to climate change — nor of the flow-on effects of that on thousands of other environmental matters of concern — is currently required under federal environmental law.The letters ask for those decisions to be "reconsidered", under a rarely used mechanism in Australia's federal environment laws.
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