Browsing: Site contamination

Santos has pledged to rapidly improve the environmental performance of recently-acquired NSW coal seam gas operations after its investigation showed elevated soil salinity levels.

A South Australian court has rejected a company's argument that it was not guilty of causing serious environmental harm because Shell owned the infrastructure on its site from which diesel fuel escaped.

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Victoria's regulatory regime for contaminated sites is patchy and overly complex, state agencies are adding to the confusion, councils are out of their depth and there isn't enough money for remediation, says a damning report issued today by the State's Auditor-General.

A Victorian review has suggested major changes to policy processes for managing potentially contaminated sites.

The NSW Government has announced environmental audits of 42 of the state's major hazard facilities that store large quantities of toxic, hazardous or dangerous substances.

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Chemical company Orica, explosives supplier Dyno Nobel and miner Centennial Coal are among 53 companies placed on Pollution Reduction Programs following inspections of businesses in NSW's Hunter region.

The NSW Government will strengthen licenceholder obligations to notify pollution incidents and has imposed new requirements on Orica, after criticism of delays in informing residents of a hexavalent chromium discharge to the air from the company's Kooragang Island ammonia plant.

The South Australian EPA has alerted the public to its third separate finding of groundwater contamination in the Adelaide suburb of Edwardstown in just six months.