About Eve Lynch
Eve is a specialist environment and planning lawyer with a deep expertise in all aspects of project development in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
She provides strategic and commercial advice to her clients on the range of environmental and land access issues that arise on projects from their inception through to closure. Eve works with her clients and their regulators in a collaborative and commercial way with a focus on achieving investment certainty.
She provides advice to a broad range of clients across difference sectors, including mining, oil and gas, energy and property development. Her experience includes advising on:
- approvals and tenure mapping and strategy development for major projects, including on streamlining of environmental impact assessment processes under state/territory legislation and the EPBC Act
- planning and executing decommissioning of oil and gas infrastructure and for progressive rehabilitation and closure of mining operations
- water access, including licensing, trading and 'make good' requirements and permitting for water infrastructure projects
- vegetation clearing, including delivery of environmental offsets and compliance
- greenhouse gas emissions reporting and compliance with safeguard mechanism requirements
- reporting and investigation of contaminated land
- management of environmental and cultural heritage compliance requirements, including incident response and containment and managing regulatory inspections and investigations
- appeals, external reviews and litigation in relation to environmental approvals and cultural heritage obligations.
Eve's experience includes advising:
- Woodside Energy: on the Scarborough Project, including in relation to disputes concerning environmental approvals
- Santos: in relation to the Barossa Development and the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project, including in relation to disputes concerning approvals
- CITIC Limited: in relation to environmental approvals and tenure requirements for the Sino Iron Project, including in relation to expansion and continuation projects
- Beach Energy: in relation to its projects in the Otway Basin and Perth Basin
- Woodside Energy: on the Pluto LNG and Karratha Gas Plant, including in relation to disputes concerning environmental approvals
- Shell: in relation to the Crux Project
- Australian Gas Infrastructure Group: in relation to the Pluto Interconnector Pipeline
- Mitsui E&P: in relation to the Waitsia Gas Project Stage 2
- EDL: in relation to the Jabiru Hybrid Renewable Power Station
- Premier Coal: in relation to the Collie Coal Mine, including in relation to rehabilitation and surrender of Lake Kepwari
- on a number of significant transactions, including Newmont's divestment of the Telfer Gold Copper Mine and Havieron Project Mine and Whitehaven's acquisition of Daunia and Blackwater Mines
- a range of clients in relation to managing decommissioning obligations for offshore oil and gas infrastructure, including consultation and permitting
- a range of clients on their proposed onshore and offshore CCS projects.