Our environmental practice includes front and back-end involvement with clients in a wide range of industries and sectors navigating this difficult regulatory framework.
Our planning and environment lawyers - from diverse backgrounds including government, in-house and science - have the proven capacity to handle the complex legal issues facing business and government today.
Our experience covers environmental approvals and compliance in the resources, energy, manufacturing, agribusiness, state and local government, government owned corporations, property development and infrastructure sectors.
We advise industry on all aspects of planning and environmental approvals, to ensure projects and developments start successfully, and we continue to support operations with expert advice on regulatory matters as they arise, or indeed, as legislation and regulation evolves.
If regulatory enforcement becomes an issue we take a direct approach to ensure we meet our clients’ particular needs and objectives.
Areas of expertise include:
- appeals and litigation - town planning appeals, appearing for defendants, prosecuting complex environmental prosecutions
- climate change and carbon trading - advising on carbon liability, carbon tax and trading. We have established an expert Carbon Services Team to advise on carbon opportunities and develop strategic responses to carbon offset requirements
- contaminated land management - assisting in all aspects of contaminated land management, particularly when buying or selling a site
- environmental regulation - pollution, land management, clearing and vegetation, offsets, managing stakeholders including government, landholders, objectors and community
- incident and investigation response - expert advice on regulatory and stakeholder requirements, clean-up efforts and workplace health and safety issues
- Local, State and Commonwealth law - negotiating approvals with all levels of government, town planning, approvals, documentation, due diligence, stakeholder management.
- tenement processes and land access - securing mining titles and approvals, managing government processes and negotiating with stakeholders and landowners
- water - advising on all issues from access and approvals to contamination containment challenges and landholder negotiations, and
- waste and recycling - assisting with effective management of waste production, transport and disposal, meeting compliance requirements and commercial outcomes.
We help you understand your existing regulatory obligations and potential liability.
