Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them.
The former director of a waste company has been ordered to pay $460,000 in fines and legal costs for providing false information about asbestos-contaminated waste that he dumped illegally.
A $600 million energy from waste project at Opal's Maryvale paper mill in the Latrobe Valley has secured a $48.2 million federal grant, the company announced today.
A Western Australian council is considering using solar power and landfill gas to power an electrolyser that would produce hydrogen using the waste facility's leachate as feedwater.
Energy from waste projects should be allowed to earn carbon credits "as a matter of urgency", according to the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association.