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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… Supreme Court made, prohibiting mechanised sand and clay mining that had devastated our river beds with an imminent … to suspend all licenses for mechanised sand and clay mining (the Sand mining case). xi In the case of Environmental Foundation …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… Uganda 2 Illegal Discharge of Mine Water Canada 6 Illegal Mining Antigua and Barbuda 1 India 19 Indigenous Peoples … Canada 9 Brazil 1 Licensing Sri Lanka 7 Limestone Mining India 19, 29 Locus Standi Bangladesh 1 Chile 2 ECJ 1 … 6 Medicinal Products ECJ 14 Minefields International 6 Mining Lease India 16, 21 Venezuela 2 Mining Operations …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… extreme weather events must include resource extraction.42 Mining for coal and other combustible 40 Austrian Federal … of which emits the GHGs responsible for climate change. Mining and drilling also tend to generate large volumes of … other provision is grandfathered in leases and permits for mining and oil and gas in sensitive mountain ecosystems …
Judicial handbook on environmental law
… law seek to conserve the resources they regulate. • Mining and energy laws may regulate the emissions of … products or waste or dangerous activities such as mining or waste water treatment. • Strict liability. Statutes … South Africa in Witwatersrand Local Division set aside a mining authorization on the basis that the applicant had a …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… destroyed for building ships and railways. Geologists and mining engineers, who have done geological surveys, tell us … Supreme Court investigated the ecological hazards of the mining in the Doon Valley through commissions and closed some … proof of causation between the fluoride levels and coal mining activity. But the case collapsed when the head of the …
Aspects contemporains du droit de l'environnement en Afrique de l'ouest et centrale
… Botchway, Towards an Environmental Legal Regime for Gold Mining in Ghana, Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1994 M. … in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Appraisal of the Mining Regime in Nigeria, Thesis, York University (Canada), …