ENVIRONMENT

Back to the drawing board at Rosebery

THE Federal Court has ruled that former environment minister Sussan Ley’s decision to allow MMG to start design and assessment works for a proposed tailings storage facility for the Rosebery mine in western Tasmania breached the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

 Tasmania's masked owl

Tasmania's masked owl

Federal Court Justice Mark Moshinsky found in favour of the Bob Brown Foundation, the applicant in the case, and ruled Ley's decision invalid, with the government ordered to reconsider MMG's application....

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