Waste company Bettergrow has failed to convince the NSW Supreme Court that TransGrid should pay $1.5 million in damages, after it unwittingly received asbestos-contaminated mud from a substation site.
A company has failed to convince the NSW Land and Environment Court that the $17 million cost of remediating parts of the Botany Industrial Park should trigger a reduction in the Valuer-General's estimate of the land value.
After winning a Court of Appeal dispute over its planned concrete recycling facility in Sydney, a waste business has relied on NSW's contamination policy to stop another company establishing a marina on a neighbouring site.
A proposed new NSW contaminated sites policy introduces a requirement for experts to certify low-risk clean-up plans, and is much more prescriptive about what constitutes high-risk remediation work.