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.
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 NSW government is planning to strengthen assessment requirements for CCS projects, waste-to-energy projects, groundwater treatment activities, and large storage batteries.
Using lead-contaminated material to build a workers’ camp has resulted in an enforceable undertaking that will cost two related companies $1.5 million.
Waste company Bingo Industries has again failed to convince a court that people disposing of waste at its facilities are partly to blame if it is found to owe damages to a construction company over allegedly contaminated aggregate.
The NSW EPA is prosecuting the former director of a waste oil company that is under external administration, and has launched debt recovery proceedings against him.
A council will incur clean-up, performance improvement and penalty costs totalling more than $1 million after failing to report a caustic soda spill from a sewage treatment plant.