Browsing: Queensland

A court has fined the director of a sand quarrying company $32,000 for providing false information to Queensland's environment department and failing to comply with an environment protection order.

A Queensland council will pay $40,000 after it cleared all the trees from a small island that is a nesting site for a protected bird.

• Bill to ban evaporation dams goes before Queensland Parliament
  
• Energy efficiency saves Dow billions
  
• Consultant sought for water quality regulation review
  
• Cullen Trust seeks first Trust Fellows
  
• UK Conservatives – carbon price 'is vital'

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh today announced a new, less generous scheme to support solar hot water installations, a month after pulling the plug on the previous regime.

• Bligh flags massive hike in oil spill penalty
  
• Queensland mines fined for unlawful water discharges
  
• Wong kicks in $3.88 million for coal seam gas water risks study
  
• $250 million recycled water scheme '90% complete'
  
• UK imposes CCS levy on electricity suppliers

Changes to Queensland's Water Act will require operators of coal seam gas projects to investigate reductions in aquifer levels that might be related to their activities.

• NSW to exempt councils from liability for climate change and flooding risk advice
  
• Some householders misled, insulation survey finds
  
• Solar energy expert joins Bligh's climate council

A Queensland court has fined mining company MMG $130,000 for discharging contaminated wastewater from its Century zinc and lead mine in the state's north-west during last year's wet season.

• Queensland prosecutes Xstrata subsidiary
  
• Federal Court finds carbon company breached Trade Practices Act
  
• Sugar Co-op: RECs price has put cogen plants at risk

• NT to put carbon price tag on land clearing applications
  
• Renewable energy centre bill clears Senate
  
• Queensland pulls plug on solar hot water rebate scheme
  
• Cadbury, Xerox and GPT in the running for sustainability prize