Victoria tweaks mandatory energy and water efficiency scheme * WA orders Wyndham Port to prepare improvement plan * Federal government seeks emissions trading and climate risk experts * New climate department absorbs DFAT climate role * Upstream oil and gas greenhouse emissions up, but intensity down * Office tower owners partner with environment group * Victoria to offer second tranche geothermal permits
SUMMARY: Court orders Amcor to pay $104,000 * Sustainability Victoria reports on waste progress * Asia Pacific Partnership and APEC overlooked in landmark U.S. and EU bid to remove tariffs on environmental goods * Business group says NZ climate bill has major flaws * UN climate chief says focus now should be on format of future talks *
Magistrate orders waste company and director to pay $97,500 * SA Legislative Council stands firm on changes to solar tariff law * Environment group calls for NOx trading * SA marine parks bill through * Green Building Council seeks more business partners *
EPA Victoria has piqued interest worldwide – including from the Clinton Foundation – with its pioneering mandate for companies to implement energy, water and waste projects with a payback of three years or less. CE Daily talks to EPA sustainable development director Terry A'Hearn about its scheme, which will take effect next year. (plus audio)
Court orders Abigroup to pay $20,000 to NSW department * WWF sets out 2008 agenda * OneSteel set to sub-licence waste plastic technology * Major carbon capture cost reductions on the horizon * Melbourne Water sets out drought impacts and climate risks
Queensland has flagged the prospect of a “performance-based” landfill levy and raised the possibility of container deposit legislation and a new waste statute in a paper discussing possibilities for a revamped state waste strategy.
Gore and IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize (with video); Turnbull names Gunns mill expert panel; Woodside gets clearance for Pluto LNG plant on Burrup; NSW seeks comment on Gosford alternative waste treatment plan.
A program that will require about 280 Victorian facilities to develop plans to better manage energy, water and waste is likely to deliver a net economic benefit of about $65.4 million over 10 years, says a regulatory impact statement for the proposal.
The NSW environment department today proposed an overhaul of the state’s main regulation on waste. The changes would alter the rules governing the use of waste as a fuel and its application to land, simplify the waste facility licensing regime and amend some criteria for non-waste environmental licensing.
