The Western Cape High Court dismissed an application to review and set aside decisions granting environmental authorisation for a seismic reconnaissance survey off South Africa’s West Coast. The judgment summarises the application process, the public participation material, and the court’s treatment of the review grounds raised by the applicants. It also records that each party was ordered to pay its own costs.
This appears to concern environmental authorisation and judicial review issues that may be relevant to fisheries, environmental and administrative law stakeholders.
Evidence from source
The application is dismissed. Each party shall pay their own costs.
Supports: Summary sentence 3 and the outcome of the case.
This is an opposed application for the review and setting aside of decisions by the first respondent, and second respondent as appellate authority, to grant an environmental authorisation (EA) to the third respondent
Supports: Summary sentence 1 about the review of environmental authorisation decisions.
for a seismic reconnaissance survey off the West Coast of South Africa.
Supports: Summary sentence 1 about the subject matter of the authorisation.