The Queensland environment department is reviewing how it checks the environmental and business credentials of companies and individuals, after consultancy EY identified serious deficiencies in its existing approach.
The Queensland environment department has moved quickly to use its new powers to impose environmental obligations on an individual connected to a high-risk company.
The Queensland Parliament has reinstated broad rights to launch legal appeals against mining projects that were removed by the former Newman Government.
Queensland Environment Minister Stephen Miles today announced the members of a working group that will advise on the introduction of the state's new 'chain of responsibility' pollution law.
Origin, APPEA and the Queensland Resources Council have urged the Queensland Parliament not to reinstate environmental offset requirements abolished by the former Newman Government.