Environmental law entails the application of laws and legal principles to any matter relating to water, air, soil, radiation, natural resource utilisation (such as mining or power generation), waste and other emissions and the associated impacts to the natural and human environment. The Environmental and Mining Law Department of MacRobert brings more than a decade of in-depth experience in these complex fields of law to clients in the mining, industrial, power generation, transport, petroleum exploration and production, infrastructure and other commercial sectors. We also have unique experience in rendering environmental and mining law advice within the context of multi-disciplinary consultant teams relating the application of environmental and mining legal principles to technical and scientific scenarios.
The department provides, amongst others, the following services: