A Queensland court has fined an employee $12,000 for instructing a driver to classify wastewater destined for a composting facility as 'wash pad water', when it was regulated waste from an underground coal gasification operation.
A Victorian court has fined a Melbourne company $95,000 for illegally storing 90 tonnes of industrial waste, while a court in Queensland has fined an underground coal gasification company $60,000.
Gladstone Magistrates Court has directed Orica to pay $432,000, plus $53,000 in costs, over hundreds of illegal discharges of cyanide from its Yarwun chemicals plant, but has recorded no conviction against the company.
The Queensland environment department has charged Orica with 279 offences of wilfully contravening a condition of a development approval at its Yarwun chemicals plant near Gladstone.
Particle emissions from the Hazelwood brown coal power station more than doubled in a year, particle emissions in Gladstone increased more than 50% and a plunge in BP Kwinana refinery particulate almost entirely offset a hefty increase from CSBP, the latest NPI data shows.
