Waratah Coal lodged application to overturn recommendation that lease and approvals be refused
Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal has launched an appeal against a ruling that its plans to dig Australia’s largest thermal coalmine in Queensland would infringe on the human rights of future generations.Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal has launched an appeal against a ruling that its plans to dig Australia’s largest thermal coalmine in Queensland would infringe on the human rights of future generations.
“A lot of people in the coalmining industry are concerned that this will be a precedent for future operations that will be detrimental to international investment in the coal industry in Queensland and create a lot of unemployment,” he said. Waratah’s solicitor, Brendan Tobin, will argue Kingham’s decision-making was littered with errors of law, went well beyond the jurisdiction of her court and was an improper exercise of power.In a 41-page application for a statutory order of review to quash Kingham’s ruling, Tobin argued the land court president “acted unreasonably in taking into account the impacts of climate change in a hypothetical future world”.
Waratah will also challenge Kingham decisions regarding intergenerational equity, her concern that the company’s forecast economic contribution of the mine was optimistic and may result in tax benefits being retained overseas, as well as those regarding a raft of on the ground impacts such as noise, air pollution and subsidence.
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