Browsing: Assessments, approvals, licensing

A tribunal mistakenly applied a policy goal of minimising landfills in its decision to refuse a planning permit for a new one, the Victorian Supreme Court has ruled.

The NSW EPA is seeking to overturn a NSW Land and Environment Court ruling in which the court found the EPA's litigation over an alleged licence breach warranted 'the severest censure'.

• Water planning rules need review: Victorian Tribunal
  
• Victoria establishes smart meter advisory council
  
• CO2 Australia tests new eucalypt in first Queensland project
  
• Queensland reviews licensing regulations for solar hot water installations

• Gillard to attend Rio+20 environmental summit
  
• Court orders mine to pay $85,000, after $10m clean up
  
• LNG plant EIS details cumulative impacts of Gladstone projects
  
• ACT large-scale solar auction draws 49 proposals

• Government proposes new forestry carbon credit rules
  
• WA EPA launches 'waste-to-energy' review
  
• WA Health intervenes in major expansion of oil recycling facility

Final NSW EPA guidelines on new obligations to report pollution monitoring data require companies to disclose air, water and noise results via a homepage link on their websites.

• General concern not enough to challenge works approval: Tribunal
  
• Productivity Commission examines local government best environmental practice
  
• ASX a laggard in global sustainable exchanges survey
  
• Barrister's conduct in environment case unsatisfactory: Tribunal

A tribunal today found EPA Victoria was wrong in issuing approval for a half-size gasified-coal power plant, but ruled the 600MW full-scale version can only proceed when the Federal 'contracts for closure' scheme locks in the retirement of a matching amount of existing brown coal-fired generating capacity.

• Court rules EPA charge against licence-holder faulty
  
• Beef-up water labelling scheme enforcement: Ai Group
  
• Hunt introduces solar hot water bill

• NSW regulator lowers 'fair' estimate of feed-in tariff
  
• Sydney City teams with Low Carbon Australia
  
• Fleet owners continue to reduce CO2 emissions faster than private
  
• Mediation aims to resolve NT container deposit teething problems
  
• Iron ore company says port development could be major 'green grid' user
  
• Oil refiners must adapt quickly to survive: Accenture