The Environment Council of Central Queensland, represented by Environmental Justice Australia, launched the legal intervention in July.
Almost 20 major coal and gas proposals across Australia, including more than a dozen in Queensland and a handful in NSW and WA, will be reassessed by the federal government to include the projects’ climate impacts.
ECoCeQ President Christine Carlisle said previous ministers had failed to consider climate change impacts, including animals, plants and places that could be harmed by a coal or gas proposal. “The climate impact of each of the proposed mines and gas fields will devastate Australia’s living wonders. Every single one will have immense and irreversible impacts on the animals, plants and places that we want our children and their children to know and love.”
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