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

A Queensland jury today found Linc Energy guilty of causing serious environmental harm, while the state government on Friday applied to the High Court to appeal a related decision.

In a ruling that could be challenged in the High Court, an appeal court has overturned a test case decision that put the onus on liquidators to meet environmental clean-up liabilities ahead of all other costs.

• Court of Appeal rules council entitled to recover $1.2m in clean-up costs
  
• Court blocks activist efforts to scrutinise mine sold for $1
  
• Environment court fines Toll over dangerous goods breach

A new Queensland bill proposes pooling annual payments from resource companies to ensure taxpayers aren't left to cover clean-up costs.

• New water offset requirements proposed for Reef catchments
  
• CEFC increases NSW solar farm support to Neoen to $180 million
  
• Contamination risk easing, says environment agency
  
• Adelaide City to prepare 'sustainable events' guide

The former chief executive of underground coal gasification company Linc Energy has failed to convince the High Court to hear his appeal against an environmental protection order.

Activist group Lock the Gate has launched legal proceedings to find out how Queensland's environment department calculated the financial assurance for a mine that Rio Tinto sold for $1.

A court has set aside a regulator's contamination clean-up order, noting that another department had strongly recommended against it being issued.

Queensland's Treasurer Curtis Pitt has introduced a bill that would establish a unique, risk-based approach to ensure mining companies rehabilitate their sites.

• New rehabilitation policy to apply to some existing mines
  
• Sustainability award finalists named
  
• Victorian Treasurer takes on responsibility for resources