A Yancoal and Glencore joint venture company will spend more than $1.4 million after sediment-laden water escaped from its Singleton open-cut coal mine into a creek.
Businesses and residents in Sydney would have higher water bills at times when dam levels are low, under new proposals from the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal.
A company that supplied chemicals company Jalco Australia with a wastewater storage tank alerted it three times to possible deficiencies, but Jalco failed to act and the tank collapsed.
Latrobe Valley coal mines should speedily be filled with water once production ceases, and that might mean using treated wastewater or seawater, according to EnergyAustralia.
The NSW environment department has for the fourth time been convicted of pollution offences over its operation of a sewage treatment plant in the Snowy Mountains.
It will take decades to create ground-stabilising lakes in the Latrobe Valley's three brown coal mine pits, partly because river inflows have declined, according to a new report.