Most environmental management plans for contaminated sites can be adequately dealt with in one or two pages, says NSW EPA accredited site auditor, Andrew Lau.
With Thiess Services poised to begin Australia's largest remediation project – and in the throes of completing the nation's most complex remediation task – CE Daily talks to the company's Doug Moss and John Hunt.
The Danish EPA has indicated it will allow the importation of a stockpile of toxic waste stored by Orica at its Botany site, paving the way for Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to issue a hazardous waste export permit.
The Northern Territory Government is investigating a spill of up to 70,000 litres of petrol from a tank at Rio Tinto Alcan's Nhulunbuy alumina refinery on the Gove peninsula, just a few months after the company dumped tonnes of alumina into Gove Harbour.
A court yesterday imposed penalties and costs totalling more than $330,000 on a company director who 'walked away' from a massive stockpile of waste chemicals.
