Justice Nicola Pain dismissed the companyâs appeal on Friday finding the IPCâs refusal of the mine was lawful.
Rana Koroglu, a managing lawyer at the Environmental Defenders Office, which represented the alliance, said it was âa historic win not just for Bylong but for everyone working to limit global carbon emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate changeâ.
âWe could not be more pleased for the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance, who have fought courageously for five years to protect their beautiful valley from this mine,â she said.
âThe community provided robust scientific evidence to the IPC on the detrimental environmental, social and economic impacts of the proposal to build a new coalmine in a highly productive agricultural area.