Browsing: <a href="/tag/nsw">NSW</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/site-contamination">Site contamination</a>

• Hunt exempts minor roadworks from standard EPBC process
  
• New Queensland contamination rules now in force
  
• New guide to enforceable undertakings
  
• WA issues new mining guidelines

NSW Environment Minister Mark Speakman has ordered a review of the EPA's management of contaminated sites, after the discovery of polluted groundwater at a RAAF base.

In a ruling that offers new insights into what constitutes 'reasonable suspicion' of pollution, a court has ruled that a council can recover clean-up costs from two directors, not just their company.

After winning a dispute with the NSW Valuer-General over a contaminated site, a property owner has secured a $3.5 million reduction in the value of the property for rating purposes.

• EPA criticises company's 'deficient' response to clean-up notice
  
• Minerals Council issues cumulative impact assessment guide
  
• Mining fund delivering rehabilitation benefits, Minister says

• NSW overhauls statutory guidelines on reporting contamination
  
• LNP Senator to give evidence at environmental donations inquiry
  
• WA EPA issues draft guideline on assessing leachate

• SA EPA civil penalties to rise
  
• EPA Victoria appoints new auditors
  
• Nuplex ordered to investigate toxic chemical emissions
  
• NT EDO beats closure deadline

The NSW Land and Environment Court has levied a $63,000 fine plus costs on the director of an earthmoving and haulage company who arranged for more than 3,500 tonnes of asbestos-contaminated waste to be removed from a Shell refinery site and illegally dumped at a rural residential property.

• Government and coal-carrier owner in court over $50m Reef clean-up
  
• EPA issues $30,000 penalty to bulk fuel storage company
  
• NSW to impose new fuel controls on cruise ships

Landowners in NSW should check whether they are paying rates based on valuations that unfairly ignore site contamination, after a significant Land and Environment Court ruling.