A farmer has missed out on a soil carbon research tax break after applying a few days late, in a case that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal described as a 'compelling example of excessive rigidity' in legislation.
The Western Australian Government has revealed in State Parliament that AngloGold Ashanti has spent more than $1 million cleaning up a diesel spill at its Tropicana gold mine.
After obtaining a warrant to search a company director's home office, the NSW EPA has secured penalties of $87,000 for illegally transporting waste and an order that he pay costs in excess of $200,000.
A BHP Billiton subsidiary activated its Pollution Incident Response Management Plan within 30 minutes of a blast going wrong, and within three hours had notified regulators and medical centres.
The NSW Court of Appeal has ruled that a waste company and its directors can withdraw pleas that they are guilty of contempt, and has held the environment court judge who decided otherwise should not hear the case.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has fined a grazier $320,025 for illegal landclearing, after discounting the penalty because of the 'negative publicity and hate mail' he received.
Orica has incurred $120,000 in fines and clean-up costs of $432,000 after it chose a strategy to manage safety concerns that led to inadequate environmental monitoring.
Two companies and their director have for the second time suffered an adverse court ruling for dumping asbestos-contaminated waste, and the matter isn't over yet.
The NSW EPA can't issue a summons to a company without providing details of the alleged polluting activity, the Court of Criminal Appeal has unanimously ruled.