In an important case considering the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s powers to issue stay orders under the state’s revised Environment Protection Act, big global meat products company Van Hessen has been denied a stay of a prohibition notice that will potentially cost it up to $200,000 per week and result in the loss of 30 full time jobs.
VicForests is ignoring the precautionary principle in its approach to logging glider habitat, and its conservation methods are ineffectual, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
In a move likely to result in large volumes of Melbourne's residual waste being sent for energy recovery, the ACCC has approved 16 councils to jointly procure processing services.
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 Bill to cap waste-to-energy capacity has cleared the Victorian Lower House, and the state government has appointed Recycling Victoria's inaugural chief executive.