NSW's Independent Planning Commission today refused consent for a coal mine and rejected claims by the industry and environment department that NSW's climate policy was an irrelevant consideration.
Australian Paper must satisfy more stringent controls on feedstock for its proposed large-scale waste to energy plant, following the settlement of a legal challenge.
A council can ask McDonald's for a contamination assessment of a site not intended for a sensitive use, but requiring it to pay for a peer review is going too far, a tribunal has ruled.
A company that earlier this year had a proposal for an open-cut coal mine refused partly on climate change grounds has decided not to appeal the decision.