Source: ABC News
By Eugene Boisvert, Patrick Martin and Stacey Lee

A legal challenge against plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight has been launched in the Federal Court.

Photo: Sea Shepherd Australia's Jeff Hansen, Mirning elder Bunna Lawrie, the Wilderness Society's Peter Owen and Holdfast Bay Mayor Amanda Wilson at the launch of the legal action. (ABC News: Stacey Lee) — **Photo:** Sea Shepherd Australia's Jeff Hansen, Mirning elder Bunna Lawrie, the Wilderness Society's Peter Owen and Holdfast Bay Mayor Amanda Wilson at the launch of the legal action. (ABC News: Stacey Lee)

The Wilderness Society is taking the national regulator — the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) — to court after it granted conditional environmental approval to Norwegian oil company Equinor to conduct drilling.

The society alleges Equinor did not consult "important and relevant parties", which it said was required by regulations.

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