A Spotted Legal History of the EDO (WA)

							           A Spotted Legal History
              of the EDO (WA)

                                               • Have a go!
                                               • No go!
                                               • A fair go!




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              1. Have a go!!




• First injunction: Oct 1994
• EDO formed: Oct 1995
• Justice Templeman: Full Court – 1997
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                  2. NO GO!!
           Environmental Water Allocations




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                 “Water Availability”
• Gnangara Mound Water Level Monitoring Data: Wanneroo




      — The dark blue line represents the water level.
      — The light blue line is the previous year's level.
      — The red line represents the EWP water level criteria.
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            Water Consumption
 Water Corporation newspaper advertisement: 8 May 2004




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       State of the water resource




           Gnangara Mound superficial aquifer depletion; 1979 – 2004

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       Defining water availability !!




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       Adaptive Allocation Regime
  “To see on-going and increasing levels of non-
  compliance with environmental conditions while
  levels of groundwater abstraction for public and
  private purposes remain unchanged raises
  questions about the DoE’s response under the
  existing conditions. Changing abstraction rates is
  likely to be necessary in the short-term but a more
  adaptive and responsive water allocation regime
  is essential in the longer-term.”
   –       EPA, August 2005, re Gnangara Mound

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               3. A fair go!!
            - The Law of Standing
• Wheeler J in Re MacTiernan; ex parte
  Coogee Coastal Action Coalition, 06/2005
     – Paragraph 6:
     – Wheeler J’s real concern
• Templeman J in Re WAPC; ex parte Sth
  Fremantle / Hamilton Hill Residents
     – Security for costs
     – Undertaking as to damages

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