An environment group has failed in a Federal Court bid to force the environment minister to consider climate damage in assessment of fossil fuel projects.
The Federal Court has rejected a legal challenge against federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s assessment of two coal projects, after the community group that launched the court action argued the minister’s refusal to assess their climate harm was unlawful.
However, he said the case posed a question for federal parliament over whether the environment minister should be compelled to consider the harm from polluting projects. A spokesperson for Plibersek said the minister was considering the implications of the judgment, adding that she had not made a determination on the projects in question.
“I’m alarmed that under our law as it currently stands, it is somehow not the job of the environment minister to protect the environment from the biggest threat of all, which is climate change from coal and gas,” Carlisle said. The Greens are demanding Labor insert a so-called “climate trigger” in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, which would force the government to assess the contribution of all fossil-fuel projects to global warming.
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