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Minister for the Environment & Heritage v Greentree (No 2) [2004] FCA 741 (11 June 2004)

Page type:: Case
Category:: Habitat and biodiversity; Environmental impact assessment
Year:: 2005
Jurisdiction:: Commonwealth
Court:: Federal Court
Page rating:: 5
Websource:: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2003/857.html

The Greentree cases resulted from the illegal clearing of a RAMSAR wetland in northern NSW. The other cases in this series are listed below in the “See Also” section.

This is the substantive case that followed the interlocutory injunction discussed in Minister for the Environment & Heritage v Greentree [2003] FCA 857 (8 August 2003). In this case the Federal Court found that Mr Greentree had breached the EPBC Act and that he and his company were liable for a civil penalty (a fine).

Download: Former EPBC Project - Case Note about this case (PDF 48 KB)

This page includes information originally created by the EPBC Project and website www.epbc.com.au. The EPBC Project has now come to a close and that website is no longer updated.