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The SA EPA has released a report concerning its involvement and approach in the planning system and how it will change over the next few years. […]
A large manufacturer, in NSW, was convicted and ordered to pay a total of $45,000 after pleading guilty to failing to ensure that dangerous goods were transported […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) said it is committed to working with the Commonwealth Government and other agencies in assisting Orica find solutions to manage […]
Drum Brokers Australia Pty Ltd has been convicted and found guilty of eight charges in the Dandenong Magistrates Court and ordered to pay over $100,000 for […]
Orica Australia Pty Ltd has now pleaded guilty to an additional three charges brought by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in relation to three separate […]
A Melbourne concrete company has faced fines and clean-up costs of more than $86,000 for discharging concrete slurry to a nature conservation reserve, including a wetlands […]
Property developers in western Sydney’s Eastern Creek and in Tamworth have agreed to pay $200 000 and $184 000 respectively in an EPBC Act ‘enforceable undertakings’ […]
A Blue Mountains transportation company, Alcobell and its director were ordered to pay fines and costs of $14,500 in Lithgow Local Court recently for illegally transporting […]
Four waste-tyre-processing businesses in the Sydney Region have each been fined $1500 by the EPA for illegally stockpiling waste tyres without a licence. The operators were […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has commenced proceedings against Orica Australia Pty Ltd in the NSW Land and Environment Court for an alleged breach of […]
A company based in Silverdale has been found guilty of two offences under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act and fined a total of $35,000 […]
The Clean Energy Regulator has undertaken its first criminal proceedings against the owner of Sydney Solar Eco Solutions Pty Ltd in relation to the provision of […]
It was found that a property developer, Coppercats Pty Ltd and Gallivantour Pty Ltd had wrongfully cleared land at Picton East, WA and under an enforceable […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) will be conducting inspections of local service stations in the Gosford region throughout September to detect any leaking Underground Petrol […]
The NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has fined a chemical manufacturer for a flare event. Qenos, a manufacturer of polyethylene and polymers, was fined $1500 for […]
Moyne Shire Council and the Victorian Department of Sustainability (DSE) have advised that environmental assessments will be carried out at the landfill site at East Beach […]
An Enforceable Undertaking (EU) is a constructive alternative to prosecution. It allows an alleged offender to voluntarily enter into a binding agreement to undertake tasks to […]
According to the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, the operator of a coal mine in the Upper Hunter has been fined $3,000 for a breach […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has issued penalty notices to three waste facilities in Eastern Creek and Kemps Creek as part of an ongoing odour […]
A southern Queensland sand quarry company has been fined $75,000 for poor water management on its Coominya site. Vicisa Sarkat Pty Ltd, pleaded guilty in Ipswich […]
The Clean Energy Regulator has published a list of liable entities for the 2012-2013 financial year. As at 24 July 2012, of the 315 potentially […]
Orica Australia has appeared in the NSW Land Environment Court in relation to four pollution incidents that occurred at its Kooragang Island Plant in 2010 and […]
An Enforceable Undertaking (EU) is a constructive alternative to prosecution. It allows an alleged offender to voluntarily enter into a binding agreement with EPA to undertake […]
The NSW EPA has issued Eastern Star Gas with two penalties and fines of $3,000 for discharging polluted water to Bohena Creek in the Pilliga, in […]
The SA Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has advised that details of new environmental authorisation applications (licences, works approval, exemptions) are now available on the EPA website. […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority has issued Eastern Star Gas with two penalties and fines of $3,000 for discharging polluted water to Bohena Creek in the […]
Orica pleaded guilty in the NSW Land and Environment Court recently for an incident that resulted in the discharge of ammonium nitrate at its Kooragang Island […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) will be conducting inspections of local service stations in the Hornsby region over the next few weeks to try to […]
NSW environment protection licence holders are now required by law to publish pollution monitoring data on their websites, in accordance with the EPA requirements. Environment […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) will be conducting inspections of local service stations in the Hornsby region over the next few weeks to try to […]
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