In an important case considering the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s powers to issue stay orders under the state’s revised Environment Protection Act, big global meat products company Van Hessen has been denied a stay of a prohibition notice that will potentially cost it up to $200,000 per week and result in the loss of 30 full time jobs.
VicForests is ignoring the precautionary principle in its approach to logging glider habitat, and its conservation methods are ineffectual, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
A Victorian tribunal has rejected a Council's attempt to shift the responsibility for investigating and managing a PFAS-contaminated site to the state's Country Fire Authority.
Opponents of a subdivision application have had a tribunal win, after arguing proposed biodiversity offsets were on an "undevelopable" part of a site that was at risk of sea-level rise.
Victoria's Supreme Court has criticised the "high-handed" behaviour of a wind farm owner, giving it three months to resolve noise problems before an injunction takes effect.
In a case that turned on the definition of industrial waste, a recycling company has lost a Supreme Court bid to have an EPA clean-up notice declared invalid.