Browsing: <a href="/tag/court-cases-fines">Court cases, fines</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/biodiversity-epbc-act">Biodiversity/EPBC Act</a>

• Alcoa pleads guilty to WA licence breach
  
• Canberra releases EPBC service charter
  
• Works approval sought for new outer-Melbourne landfill

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a grazier's claim that he cleared land to ensure safe mustering, adding that it would have fined him much more than $80,000 if not for his financial circumstances.

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected arguments by Walker Corporation that it wasn't responsible for a contractor that illegally cleared native vegetation.

A full bench of the Federal Court has affirmed that the federal environment minister has wide powers to exercise the precautionary principle when making EPBC Act decisions and "full scientific certainty" isn't required before taking steps to prevent environmental degradation.

A Victorian farmer must pay a $150,000 fine and $40,000 in federal environment department costs for clearing 45 hectares of an EPBC-listed threatened ecological community.

• Queensland and Burke discuss revising EPBC bilateral
  
• NZ considers new carbon assistance terms
  
• EPA Victoria details its approach to enforcement
  
• SA Greens MLC seeks moratorium on major projects

A developer appealing a $200,000 penalty for clearing 23 hectares has been fined $80,000 for a separate land-clearing offence.

• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum

• BCA seeks COAG action on EPBC approvals, carbon and energy
  
• Government warns against landfill carbon 'scare campaign'
  
• Council could have inspected bridge without pollution
  
• Australian geothermal company boosted by Indonesian guarantee
  
• TAFE college claims first carbon neutral certification in education
  
• Offshore credits help ESA to gain certification

• Slurry 'frac-out' into wetland costs driller $173,000
  
• Failure to check boundary costs company more than $80,000
  
• Solar Systems launches 16-dish PV demo plant