A small community group can't take legal action against a planning decision to extend the deadline for building a wind farm, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
Two Whitehaven subsidiaries have been fined a total of $372,500 for clearing three access tracks in the wrong locations, failing to prepare a rehabilitation plan, and drilling boreholes in the wrong places.
A court has ordered a major food company that polluted a waterway to make a $100,000 payment to a conservation group that is its partner in a bioenergy project.
South32 says uncertainty over the approval of a key metallurgical coal mine expansion is behind a $997 million write-down of its coal business, and the company has laid out its reasons for seeking a court order that consent was invalidly refused.
Environmentalists say a major Woodside LNG processing project was approved without any scrutiny and, as court action continues, they have released a new analysis of its emissions.