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The Queensland Conservation Council recently mounted a legal challenge to Xstrata Coal's plans to extend its Newlands coal mine in central Queensland. The case raises some significant legal and factual issues regarding the causative link between coal mining and global climate change.
QCC in the present case aims to force Xstrata Coal to avoid, reduce or offset an estimated 140 million tones of carbon dioxide which would be emitted into the atmosphere over the next 15 years.
Read this case summary by HopgoodGanim Lawyers of the first and second day of hearing of the Xstrata and Queensland Conservation Council case.
Click on the PDF link to download a full copy of this document.
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