A court has ordered an electricity distributor to pay $168,200 after one of its contractors illegally cleared within a national park, and the company will also spend up to $840,000 restoring an alternative access path to its powerlines.
Labor's victory in Western Australia has ignited a battle over the approval status of four proposed uranium mines and triggered a complaint to ASIC about ASX statements by one of the proponents.
WA Environment Minister Albert Jacob says the EPA was right to recommend rejection of a proposed uranium mine on environmental grounds, but the project might still proceed.
The WA EPA can't support Cameco's Yeelirrie uranium mine while there is evidence it might cause extinctions, says the agency's chair Tom Hatton, but that doesn't mean the project won't eventually go ahead.