Gray and Anor v Macquarie Generation [2010] NSWLEC 34

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Gray and Anor v Macquarie Generation [2010] NSWLEC 34

APPLICANTS Peter Robert Grey PARTIES : Naomi Crystal Hodgson RESPONDENT Macquarie Generation

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40500 of 2009

CORAM: Pain J

KEY ISSUES: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- whether summons should be summarily dismissed because no cause of action - whether lawful authority to emit carbon dioxide under environment protection licence - summons dismissed in part

LEGISLATION CITED: Pollution Control Act (1970)(repealed) Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 s43, s63, s66, s75, s115, s322

A-G v Great Eastern Railway Co (1880) 5 App Cas 473 Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Egan v Willis (1998) 195 CLR 424 Electricity Commission of New South Wales v Environment Protection Authority (1992) 28 NSWLR 494 Environment Protection Authority v Australian Iron & Steel Pty Ltd (1992) 28 NSWLR 502 Environment Protection Authority v Cleary Bros (Bombo) Pty Ltd (1996) 92 LGERA 101 Environment Protection Authority v Hardt (2006) 148 LGERA 61 Ex parte Johnson; re MacMillan (1946) 47 SR (NSW) 16 CASES CITED: Fenton v Hampton (1858) 11 Moore 347 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Genkem Pty Ltd v Environmental Protection Authority (1994) 35 NSWLR 33 Gilmour v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) (1995) 43 NSWLR 243 Johns v ASC (1993) 178 CLR 408 Leerdam v Noori (2009) 255 ALR 553 Metro Transport Sydney Pty Ltd v City of Sydney Council [2009] NSWLEC 37 Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 Protean (Holdings) Ltd v Environment Protection Authority [1977] VR 51 Salter v Director of Public Prosecutions [2008] NSWSC 1325 Van Son v Forestry Commission of New South Wales (1995) 86 LGERA 108