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• Queensland mine faces fine of up to $15.8 million
  
• 'Unmistakeable' signs of warming: U.S. report
  
• WA funds commercial composting project
  
• Caroma, AGL, Sydney Water among NSW award winners

• Clean Energy Council takes issue with NSW wind farm inquiry
  
• New alliance urges mandatory energy efficiency goal
  
• WA container facility proponent details environmental approach
  
• Just over half of all farmers report changed irrigation practices

• Obama – vote for an energy bill even if you question the science
  
• New emissions registry garners little interest
  
• NSW desalination plant up and running
  
• NSW offers 18 grants totalling $6.8 million
  
• WA reviews Goldfields SO₂ policy
  
• ABS releases environmental snapshot

• Court orders director to pay $91,000 over landfill breaches
  
• WA seeks input on feed-in tariff design
  
• NSW offers energy efficiency training course grants
  
• WWF Australia chief: how the negotiators could buy time
  
• 'Livestock emissions underplayed'

• NZ and Australia to hold ministerial-level climate talks
  
• Pearce in discussions with Coalition on draft report
  
• NSW reports in on Sydney's water use
  
• Off-grid renewables funding on offer
  
• U.S. think-tank proposes WTO climate code

The NSW Land and Environment Court has ordered Caltex to pay $78,000 to the Department of Environment and Climate Change for failing to control odours at the company’s Kurnell refinery during the 2006 Christmas holidays.



Meanwhile, the WA environment department has issued a $25,000 penalty to gold miner Barrick (Kanowna) Ltd following a tailings spill.

• Move more quickly to deploy low emission technologies, say mining union and NSW minerals council
  
• NSW releases GGAS transition consultation paper
  
• Victoria issues ballast water protocol
  
• WA releases urban development guide on acid sulfate soils
  
  *'Wait to see details of Australian trading scheme', industry group tells NZ parliamentary inquiry

• Company manager faces fine and costs totalling almost $50,000, gets dressing down from judge
  
• NSW to tighten rules for underground fuel tanks
  
• Climate change means rethinking conservation, CSIRO says
  
• WA issues new licences for brickworks
  
• Pew climate centre issues 'sectoral approaches' brief

An OECD review of Australia's environmental performance says serious breaches are 'inadequately prosecuted' in some jurisdictions and recommends that enforcement be strengthened, especially against big polluters.



The OECD also says voluntary measures often don't have 'meaningful' monitoring and compliance mechanisms and recommends greater use of economic instruments.