Water pollution fines levied on a large Sydney developer have been halved after an appeal court found the company’s failure to properly implement soil erosion and sediment controls at a construction site was not motivated by money.
Sydney Water has been fined $200,000 in a sentencing hearing after being found guilty of a serious pollution incident in 2019 when its actions caused untreated sewage to overflow into a nearby creek.
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.
A service station operator has been fined a total of $320,000 for its wilful and ongoing failure to comply with an EPA notice, with a large part of the fine comprising nearly a year of daily penalties for each day of non-compliance.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal by the former director of a liquidated waste oil company who claimed charges filed against him by the NSW EPA for failing to comply with clean-up notices were duplicitous.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has supported a regional council’s decision to block a development application due to the future risk of gas migration from a nearby landfill.
The would-be developer of a giant energy from waste facility in western Sydney has failed in its challenge to the validity of the NSW Government’s recently enacted Thermal Energy from Waste Regulation.
The operator of an illegal scrap metal and auto wrecking business has successfully appealed against the severity of a series of fines handed down by the local court.
One of Australia’s oldest ski resorts has been fined and ordered to pay substantial legal and investigative costs after being convicted of two environmental offences when it discharged partially treated effluent into a tributary of the Snowy River.