Browsing: Noise

• WA Labor disquiet over special laws for major sites
  
• Hanson Construction issued with noise notice
  
• Bitupave issued with odour notice
  
• Boral joins forces with carbon storage start-up

A draft NSW noise guideline includes more flexible provisions to manage sound from clusters of industry and eases daytime limits in low-noise areas.

A draft South Australian bill would dramatically increase littering fines, expand the state's civil penalties regime, and define the responsibilities of the EPA and councils.

The Government has succeeded in reducing Australia's renewables target and exempting emissions-intensive industrial activities from it, after making undertakings that could lead to new noise controls on various industries.

A Western Australian tribunal has ruled that the noise impacts of a proposed sand quarry would not be sufficient to ban it from operating on Saturdays.

A company already in the EPA's sights for installing a waste-to-energy boiler without a licence, last week updated a regulator-convened community meeting on its efforts to fix noise problems.

• Queensland rejigs waste regulations
  
• EPA Victoria to host noise policy workshops
  
• NSW issues new native vegetation compliance tools