In the wake of a chlorine gas plume that led to site evacuations, a Victorian magistrates' court today ordered Visy Paper Pty Ltd to contribute $100,000 to a community environmental project.
The NSW Government has approved a proposal by an aluminium recycler to trial a process that would convert spent potlining material into a slag suitable for crushing and use as an aggregate in roadbase.
In the first NSW court case of its kind, an environmental consultancy and its director must pay $120,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to damaging threatened species habitat by providing the wrong advice to a developer.
Victoria's Opposition says the Brumby Government's climate bill gives 'unprecedented power' to the State EPA, while State Labor says its proposed large-scale solar tariff could also support geothermal.
A coal mining company that resolved a dispute with another coal miner by clearing endangered vegetation to erect a boundary fence must pay $125,000 in penalties and costs, the NSW environment court has ordered.
