New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.
A tribunal has set aside a wind farm permit after finding that the developer failed to get the consent of the owners of buildings including a nearby converted dairy and a small cabin.
The NSW Resources Regulator has charged two Whitehaven subsidiaries with eight offences each, all of which carry a maximum penalty of $1.1 million, over alleged exploration breaches.
A company that received EPBC approval to clear vegetation for sand mining has been blocked by the Western Australian Supreme Court, which upheld a state government ministerial decision to refuse permission for clearing.
A judge has criticised a quarry company's expert witnesses, and rejected its challenge to a development permit granted to one of its competitors to extract rock from a former gold mine site.
An environment group will be allowed to cross-examine witnesses for a mining company that has taken the NSW Independent Planning Commission to court over a refusal of consent for a coal mine.
In an important case dealing with corporate sentencing for pollution offences, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has ruled that a company didn't deliberately break the law, even though two employees provided fraudulent information to the EPA.
Open access. Highlights include a new Department of AWE; a coal mine legal challenge, stewardship scheme updates, and chemicals regulations. Jobs include posts with the NSW EPA, Nyrstar, Knight Frank and Aurecon.