Western Australia's legal requirement for accredited auditors to be involved in assessment of contaminated sites can be costly for proponents that fail to manage the process carefully, warns Jeremy Hogben, partner at consultancy Environment Resources Management.
Australia's upstream oil and gas industry has been slow to carry out Energy Efficiency Opportunities program assessments, even though it has much more scope to cut energy use than other parts of the mining industry, a new report shows.
South Australia will ramp up its business recycling and resource efficiency programs with the aim of diverting 75% of commercial and industrial waste from landfill by 2015, according to a draft waste strategy released today.
A decade after a Western Australian chemical plant applied to be exempt from a noise regulation standards because it can't reasonably comply, the WA EPA has recommended the State's environment minister grant the request.
Xstrata's "purported lack of knowledge" that its mining and smelting activities are causing high blood lead levels in children in Queensland's Mount Isa is no longer tenable, according to a new research study published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.
