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Court rules it can consider cross-border water pollution: Council to pay $423,000

After previously rejecting Queanbeyan City Council's claim that a NSW EPA prosecution was an abuse of process, the Land and Environment Court this week dismissed its argument that any harm a raw sewage spill caused in the nearby ACT was irrelevant to sentencing.

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