Browsing: <a href="/tag/sa">SA</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/assessments-approvals-licensing">Assessments, approvals, licensing</a>

• Approval delay costs hard to quantify, concedes Mineral Council
  
• Orica issues new sustainability report
  
• SA citizens strongly back expanded container deposit scheme

• WA gazettes new procedures for environmental impact assessments
  
• NSW abolishes 'energy savings plans' scheme
  
• SA EPA grants carbon monoxide exemption to Nyrstar

In July, the SA EPA trumpeted a 'unique power' to change Nyrstar's licence conditions at any time as a key feature of a varied licence for the Port Pirie lead smelter, but a new deal to transform the facility is conditional on a legislated restriction on licence changes.

• NSW EPA trumpets court penalties
  
• SA EPA puts licence applications online
  
• EPA Victoria issues new noise management guide

• SA EPA issues warning after 20-year-old contamination report surfaces
  
• WA falling short on best practice, uranium review says
  
• EPA Victoria issues new auditor guideline

• NSW regulator lowers 'fair' estimate of feed-in tariff
  
• Sydney City teams with Low Carbon Australia
  
• Fleet owners continue to reduce CO2 emissions faster than private
  
• Mediation aims to resolve NT container deposit teething problems
  
• Iron ore company says port development could be major 'green grid' user
  
• Oil refiners must adapt quickly to survive: Accenture

The first in a regular new CE Daily series that details what to look out for over the next few weeks, including regulatory changes, new grant schemes and federal and state policy proposals open for comment.

• Government to outline energy efficiency scheme expansion options
  
• SA EPA renews Yalumba's accredited sustainability licence
  
• Consumers shy away from low-carbon water heaters
  
• Ceramic fuel cell delivers in 'Smart Home' trial

Environment Minister Tony Burke today granted EPBC Act approval to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam expansion, on the same day that the South Australian Government gave it the go-ahead, with the Greens warning the project would create a 'carcinogenic mountain'.

A Victorian tribunal has ruled that a company must follow tougher wind farm noise guidelines, despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary, while a South Australian court's decision to overturn development consent for a wind farm has major ramifications for the industry, says the project developer.