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• Port and stevedore give enforceable undertakings, pay $54,000
  
• Palaszczuk establishes Cabinet biofuels committee
  
• EPA orders chemicals company to fix long-standing problems

If Labor takes office after Saturday's election, Queensland's laws on impact assessment, planning, water, waste and offsets will likely change, and so too might the approach to drafting and enforcing environmental legislation.

Labor and environment groups have criticised a Newman Government water bill that would allow mines to freely use large amounts of water without needing to be licensed.

A court was wrong to conclude that a critic of a coal mine had engaged in vexatious and frivolous litigation, according to an appeal ruling.

The Queensland Supreme Court has ruled that environment officials illegally seized backup tapes from a company facing a charge of causing serious environmental harm.

Discharges from aquaculture can be 'an order of magnitude' higher than from sugar crops, but if new operators make offset payments then it could prevent harm to the Great Barrier Reef, says the Queensland Competition Authority.

A court has fined an environmental licence holder $12,000, but recorded no conviction, for lying about the capacity of a wastewater treatment plant.

• WA to revamp water trading rules
  
• ACT opens its borders to other environment agencies
  
• Queensland to review contaminated sites legislation

Newly-released scientific advice shows the Queensland Government was warned in May of serious deficiencies in the environmental impact statement for the Waratah Coal mine proposed for the Galilee Basin.

Queensland's water supply department is under fire from the State's environment department and the Australian Water Association for omitting any reference to climate change in a discussion paper on a 30-year water strategy.