Public consultation is currently open for the Western Australian (WA) government’s proposed amendments to the state’s environmental protection legislation. The proposed changes aim to modernise the state’s environmental protection legislation to address the new challenges and priorities that have arisen in environmental protection in the 30 years since the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA) (EP … Continue Reading
The Western Australia State Government has announced that 25 major mining and infrastructure projects are at risk of being considered unlawful. This announcement follows a State Supreme Court decision which held that a failure to manage conflicts of interest had invalidated the approval process of the Western Australia Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Case The … Continue Reading
