Environment Minister Tony Burke says his views on Tasmania's Tarkine 'changed fundamentally' after a site visit, while the Greens described today's decision not to formally recognise its natural values as a 'disgrace'.
Shell Oil received a site contamination report in 1999 for a service station and didn't pass it on to the site owner, but that hasn't stopped a tribunal ruling the owner is a legitimate recipient of an EPA investigation notice.
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