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

• NT reveals $1.28 billion in bonds provided by nine mines
  
• Defence seeks PFAS expertise
  
• Unpaid licence fees lead to fine for illegal transport of asbestos

Mining companies will be allowed to provide rehabilitation sureties in the form of insurance bonds, under changes proposed by the Queensland government.

An environmental order requiring Linc Energy's director to provide a $5.5 million bank guarantee is valid, a court has ruled, and state parliament has banned the technology used by the company.

• More marine park zones to be opened to commercial fishing
  
• Defence assessing PFAS risk at 18 sites
  
• Huge increase in Queensland land clearing rates

The Queensland government is seeking a total ban on the use of PFAS firefighting foams at Commonwealth sites, and has asked Qantas to stop using them.

The Federal and Queensland governments are investigating a spill from a Qantas hanger of firefighting foam that contained PFAS chemicals.

A court ruling involving a company at the centre of a contamination scandal has challenged widely-held views that liquidators can avoid environmental obligations, according to law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

• Queensland expands PFAS survey
  
• EPA issues council with asbestos clean-up order
  
• Floodplain management grants on offer

• Monitoring reveals wider area of contamination centred on Linc plant
  
• SA to ban fire-foam chemicals
  
• NT launches water licence review

• NSW regulator reports ten-fold increase in departmental fines
  
• Queensland extends search for fire-foam contaminants
  
• NSW offers new environmental research grants