Browsing: Air pollution, odour

• WA government backs home buy-back for Port Hedland dust zone
  
• Pastoral company fulfils major ERF contract in under a month
  
• EPBC remediation order issued to King Island landowner

There is one main reason why 45 days of air pollution didn't lead to higher penalties for four companies that own the Hazelwood coal mine, according to Ashurst partner Rob Jamieson.

The owners of the Hazelwood brown coal mine have been fined $1.94 million for a major 2014 fire that lasted 45 days and blanketed the Latrobe Valley in smoke and ash.

Legal activist group Environmental Justice Australia says new NPI data on particle pollution should trigger an EPA investigation into Delta Electricity, and confirm its view that dust controls at Yallourn power station are faulty.

A chemical company must pay a $60,000 penalty and significant EPA costs after its attempt at odour neutralisation backfired and led to the release of a toxic gas.

• Number of hazardous air days doubled in NSW in 2019: New government report
  
• Fortescue to install 150MW of PV and battery storage
  
• NSW bushfire inquiry team familiar with extreme weather risks

• EPA issues guidance on PFAS in leachate and soils
  
• New WA air guidance for approval and licence applications
  
• Water pollution costs council $105,000

GrainCorp has told a court it spent more than $2 million on investigations and new systems after discovering it had misinterpreted a consultant's advice and breached its environmental licence for two years.

Failing to prevent serious odour problems when building a WestConnex interchange on an old Dial-A-Dump landfill site has cost a CIMIC subsidiary almost half a million dollars.