Browsing: <a href="/tag/court-cases-fines">Court cases, fines</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/nsw">NSW</a>

Walker Corporation will go to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal to challenge a $200,000 fine for illegal clearing, as it faces a separate NSW Land and Environment Court prosecution alleging the same offence.

The NSW environment agency has a number of prosecutions underway following a series of dawn raids conducted as part of a heightened focus on illegal waste contracting.

Huntsman Corporation has told a NSW court it is planning an $8 million upgrade of a Sydney facility that emitted a carcinogenic gas, with the company ordered to pay $68,000 after pleading guilty to failing to act in a competent manner.

Companies are up to 20 times more likely to be prosecuted for an OHS offence than an environmental one, and in some states workplace safety agencies issue thousands more compliance notices than their environmental counterparts, raising serious questions about the willingness of environmental regulators to enforce the law.

Queanbeyan City Council has failed in a bid to convince the NSW Land and Environment Court that it should not be prosecuted over a sewage spill that temporarily closed Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin to recreational activities.

• EPBC Act breach costs oil and gas company $102,000
  
• Developer fined $37,500 for illegal clearing
  
• ACCC warns on 'biodegradable' claims
  
• Training boost for environmental regulators

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an appeal over costs made by three landowners who successfully defended charges that they had harmed endangered swamp sclerophyll forest.

• Council to pay $131,000 penalty for EPBC Act breach
  
• Court fines quarry for breaching production limits
  
• New guide details how to use crushed glass in construction work
  
• Albanese issues urban policy paper