Using lead-contaminated material to build a workers’ camp has resulted in an enforceable undertaking that will cost two related companies $1.5 million.
Waste company Bingo Industries has again failed to convince a court that people disposing of waste at its facilities are partly to blame if it is found to owe damages to a construction company over allegedly contaminated aggregate.
A couple were entitled to back-out of a contract to buy land next to a RAAF base, because the vendors didn't disclose it was in a PFAS investigation zone, South Australia's highest court has ruled.
An NT government decision to significantly reduce the environmental bond that Glencore must provide for its McArthur River lead and zinc mine has prompted a Supreme Court review.
The NSW EPA is prosecuting the former director of a waste oil company that is under external administration, and has launched debt recovery proceedings against him.