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

A developer that didn't proceed with a $25 million property purchase has failed to convince an appeal court that the vendor breached a requirement to notify it of contamination.

• Defence contractor gives enforceable undertaking to EPA
  
• Company's court battle with EPA to cost it more than $270,000
  
• Councils invited to apply for waste grants

A court ruling has affirmed that site owners can be ordered to ensure contamination doesn't pose a risk, even if they didn't cause it and it has existed for decades.

The parent company of Shine Lawyers today advised the ASX that it will be launching a new class action over PFAS against the Department of Defence.

Even if the High Court agrees to hear a dispute over Linc Energy's remediation liabilities, the Queensland government won't receive any of the $4.5 million in fines imposed on Friday.

Waste company Bettergrow has failed to convince the NSW Supreme Court that TransGrid should pay $1.5 million in damages, after it unwittingly received asbestos-contaminated mud from a substation site.

A judge has refused a council's application to see details of contamination costs incurred by Caltex, and has denied the company's request to view legal advice provided to the council.

A Queensland jury today found Linc Energy guilty of causing serious environmental harm, while the state government on Friday applied to the High Court to appeal a related decision.

Amcor is alleging negligence by a well-known contaminated sites consultancy, as it fights the prospect of an unexpected requirement to pay remediation costs of up to $25 million.

In a ruling that could be challenged in the High Court, an appeal court has overturned a test case decision that put the onus on liquidators to meet environmental clean-up liabilities ahead of all other costs.