The Northern Territory Supreme Court has ruled the Minister for Land Resource Management did not properly review a complaint about the allocation of rights to take groundwater.
Traditional owners have complained to the ACCC that Glencore has made false and misleading claims about the findings of an independent report on its McArthur River zinc and lead mine.
Rehabilitating abandoned and shoddily-closed mines is likely to cost $1 billion, the Northern Territory Government estimates, prompting it to introduce a new levy on the mining industry.