In a tribunal submission offering rich insights into EPA Victoria's thinking on the regulation of CO2 emissions, the Authority argues its works approval for a high-tech coal-fired power plant satisfies Climate Change Act requirements and will ensure the plant meets 'best practice' air emissions obligations.
The Western Australian EPA has recommended tougher rehabilitation conditions for an expansion of Fortescue's Cloudbreak open-pit irone ore mine, noting that the company has so far rehabilitated less than 2% of the land disturbed at the mine site.
The Northern Territory Government has circulated a draft bill to key stakeholders that will introduce a new offence of 'unauthorised pollution', whether or not it causes environmental harm.
The Northern Territory's independent EPA today signalled that it will closely monitor the readiness and response of regulatory agencies to releases of pollutants at two locations during recent cyclone-generated torrential rainfall.
Companies must ensure monitoring data is posted prominently on their websites for two years and disclose licence emission limits as well as sampling locations and dates, according to draft guidelines issued by the NSW EPA.
The WA EPA says BHP Billiton Iron Ore should conduct a technology 'gap analysis' to help tackle dust problems that have long plagued Port Hedland, but has nevertheless recommended approval of its massive outer harbour expansion project.
