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[Webinar] MANAGING CONTAMINATED LAND: A legal and Practical Approach to Managing Risk Associated with Potentially Contaminated Land

Name: [Webinar] MANAGING CONTAMINATED LAND: A legal and Practical Approach to Managing Risk Associated with Potentially Contaminated Land
Start: 2023-05-11T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2023-05-11T15:00:00+10:00
Location: WEBINAR

11 May 2023 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

WEBINAR

May 11, 2023

@ 10.00AM – 3.00PM (AEST)

Member fee: $345

Non-member fee: $445

About the Webinar
Program

About the Webinar

[Webinar] MANAGING CONTAMINATED LAND:
A legal and Practical Approach to Managing Risk Associated with Contaminated Land

Site contamination remains a significant legal and commercial risk for landowners, occupiers, developers including those involved in buying, selling and managing property.

To assist you, the Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN) together with Australia’s leading contaminated land experts have developed this interactive Webinar to provide legal guidance and details of contaminated land obligations and solutions including a practical approach to managing potentially contaminated land.

You will hear an all-round perspective by the experts to assist you in understanding HOW and WHEN actions are required to manage contaminated land risk in order to remain compliant.

The webinar will conclude with an Open Forum to allow delegates to troubleshoot with the experts.

Please refer to the PROGRAM (tab above) for details.

Program

PROGRAM

10.00am – 10.05am
Tina Khoury, CEO, Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN)
- Welcome
10.05am – 10.10am
Facilitator: Kim Maxwell, Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN)
- Introduction
10.10am – 11.00am
Stefan Fiedler, Principal, Russell Kennedy Lawyers
- Legal guidance for buying, selling, preventing and managing potentially contaminated land, including –
  - Legal perspective on the laws and obligations
  - Overview of the Victorian regulatory framework for contaminated land, including –
    - Key legal issues with the Victorian contaminated land duties (general environmental duty, duty to notify, duty to manage…)
    - Other aspects of the framework including waste management, permissions, pollution, auditing, sanctions and enforcement
- Q&A

11.00am – 11.10am – TEA BREAK (10min)
11.10am – 12.40pm
Auditors: Peter Ramsay, Managing Director AND Andrew Green, Associate, Peter J Ramsay & Associates
- A Practical Approach to Assessing and Managing Potentially Contaminated Land. Preventing the Pitfalls for buying, selling, assessing, audithing and remedial options:
  - Introduction
  - Buying and selling contaminated land
  - Assessing and auditing contaminated land
  - Options for managing land impacted by contamination
  - Case studies (Remediation and Management – Success and Pitfalls)
  - Summary
- Q&A
12.40pm – 1.00pm – LUNCH BREAK (20min)
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Gabrielle Guthrie, Principal, Guthrie Legal
- National update on contaminated land laws for the Commonwealth, NSW, SA, QLD, WA
- Q&A
2.00pm – 2.10pm – TEA BREAK (10min)
2.10pm – 2.40pm
Howard Waldron, Director, Lotsearch
- How to identify environmental hazards before they become a risk
- Q&A
2.40pm – 3.00pm
Q&A OPEN FORUM with presenters and delegates
Note: Participants are encouraged to bring along issues to troubleshoot with the experts