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Challenge to Woodside’s $16B Scarborough gas project in public interest, court says
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-06-10 11:06 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Recovery of legal costs has been capped in a case over Woodside’s $16.5 billion Scarborough gas venture that will give the Federal Court the first chance to weigh whether an environment plan complies with the law.

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Woodside’s $16.5B Scarborough gas project faces another legal challenge
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-05-06 11:19 pm By Andy Sidler

Woodside is facing another legal challenge to its $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project, in what an environmental group called a “test case” for how NOPSEMA will assess greenhouse gas emissions from energy projects. 

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EDO rejects financial concerns after paying Santos legal costs
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-01-31 11:31 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The Environmental Defenders Office has rejected bankruptcy concerns after paying gas company Santos $9 million in legal fees.

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Activists drop legal challenge to New Acland coal mine
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-01-15 4:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An environmental group has dropped its court fight over the expansion of the New Acland coal mine in Queensland, saying the case — which went to the High Court — had taken a heavy financial toll.

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Santos’ net zero plan ‘little more than speculation’, trial court told
Trials 2024-10-28 11:50 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Santos’ plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 was “little more than a series of speculations”, a shareholder group has said on the first day of trial in a landmark greenwashing case.

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EDO can’t avoid subpoena despite agreeing to pay Santos’ costs
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-10-09 4:39 pm By Andy Sidler

The Environmental Defenders Office can’t dodge a subpoena by Santos seeking material to back a bid for full indemnity costs in a failed case over a pipeline for the $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.

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Court rejects enviro group’s challenge to Mt Pleasant coal mine extension
Environment 2024-08-20 12:32 am By Cindy Cameronne

A environmental group has lost its challenge to the extension of the Mount Pleasant open cut coal mine in NSW operated by MACH Energy, with a judge finding the planning commission considered greenhouse emissions and did not merely pay “lip service” to the issue.

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Conservation group drops challenge to Woodside’s $16.5B Scarborough project
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-08-20 11:08 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian Conservation Foundation has reached an agreement with Woodside Energy to drop proceedings over the company’s Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, which alleged the $16.5 billion joint venture could not go ahead until its climate impacts were assessed. 

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EDO makes changes to board amid scrutiny of litigation over Barossa pipeline
Environment 2024-07-03 2:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Environmental Defenders Office has replaced its chair and appointed a former judge to its board as it undergoes a review of its processes in the wake of an unsuccessful case against Santos over the oil and gas company’s $5.6 billion Barossa pipeline.

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‘So far on the wrong side’: Santos wants more evidence of EDO’s conduct in Barossa pipeline case
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-06-12 11:29 pm By Sam Matthews

Santos is seeking to wrangle further documents from the Environmental Defenders Office to support its bid for costs orders against the law firm, telling a court there must have been “glaring deficiencies” in the standard of its services in running its challenge to construction of a pipeline for the energy company’s $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.

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