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

The Queensland Parliament has passed a bill introducing a broad range of new environmental penalties, with one Labor MP justifying the changes partly on the basis of a company that copped a $100,000 hazardous waste dumping fine because it was cheaper than proper disposal.

• Site owner 'untruthful, selfish, grossly irresponsible', judge says
  
• Tribunal crushes council's veto of construction waste recycling plant
  
• Court orders water utility to pay $63,000
  
• Changes at Sustainable Business Australia

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.

• Court rules Queensland environment department 'plainly wrong'
  
• Queensland Government backs large-scale solar
  
• Court orders abbattoir to pay $60,000 after effluent discharge
  
• EPA Victoria halves zero carbon costs, excludes GreenPower
  
• Tasmania issues coastal works manual

Legislation introduced into Queensland's Parliament will allow courts to issue a range of new sanctions, including an order requiring polluters to pay money equivalent to any financial gain they obtained as a result of their illegal activity.