The Queensland government has updated its environmental laws by including provisions that provide early certainty on clearly unacceptable projects, greater public consultation, and increased accountability for directors and officers of companies that cause environmental harm.
A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.
The Queensland government is considering using its environmental licensing regime to require resource companies to cut emissions, and is also canvassing views on establishing an independent EPA.
A man who previously failed to comply with an environmental protection order has failed to convince a court that he was wrongly refused new exploration permits.
New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.
Remondis has secured agreement from Queensland's Coordinator-General for a streamlined whole-of-government assessment of its plans for a $400 million waste to energy project.
Regulations that require new developments to have "no net impact" on water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments have survived a disallowance motion.
A judge has criticised a quarry company's expert witnesses, and rejected its challenge to a development permit granted to one of its competitors to extract rock from a former gold mine site.
The Queensland Parliament today passed a Bill that strengthens financial assurance requirements for mines, and broadens the definition of how mines can be remediated.