Water pollution fines levied on a large Sydney developer have been halved after an appeal court found the company’s failure to properly implement soil erosion and sediment controls at a construction site was not motivated by money.
Sydney Water has been fined $200,000 in a sentencing hearing after being found guilty of a serious pollution incident in 2019 when its actions caused untreated sewage to overflow into a nearby creek.
A service station operator has been fined a total of $320,000 for its wilful and ongoing failure to comply with an EPA notice, with a large part of the fine comprising nearly a year of daily penalties for each day of non-compliance.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal by the former director of a liquidated waste oil company who claimed charges filed against him by the NSW EPA for failing to comply with clean-up notices were duplicitous.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has supported a regional council’s decision to block a development application due to the future risk of gas migration from a nearby landfill.
One of Australia’s oldest ski resorts has been fined and ordered to pay substantial legal and investigative costs after being convicted of two environmental offences when it discharged partially treated effluent into a tributary of the Snowy River.
A Victorian tribunal has rejected a Council's attempt to shift the responsibility for investigating and managing a PFAS-contaminated site to the state's Country Fire Authority.
A vineyard operator is challenging an order to look for contamination on its land, six years after a WA parliamentary committee investigated the management of possible contamination on a neighbouring site.
Liquidators will need to be more cautious when dealing with companies that have environmental liabilities, following a High Court decision not to review a Victorian ruling, according to law firm Ashurst.