Two Whitehaven Coal businesses now face environmental penalties totalling up to $20 million, after failing to convince a NSW agency to accept their enforceable undertaking that included a large payment to the NSW Minerals Council.
A group of bushfire survivors that has mounted a court challenge against the NSW EPA has won the right to present expert climate change evidence from a former Australian chief scientist.
A decade after an international energy company sought environmental approval for a major wind farm, it has secured approval for a dramatically scaled-back version.
After imposing its first carbon offset condition late last month, the NSW Independent Planning Commission is saying little about how it might exercise its carbon offset conditioning powers in future.
The NSW Independent Planning Commission today approved Santos to proceed with its $3.6 billion Narrabri coal seam gas project, subject to extra conditions on matters including groundwater and greenhouse gas.
The company proposing a WA gas project, along with the state's environmental agency, are taking a very different stance on carbon offsetting to Santos and the NSW government.
Santos has presented the Independent Planning Commission with a new legal opinion on ecologically sustainable development and carbon emissions, as it seeks approval for its Narrabri coal seam gas project.