Victoria's Supreme Court has found a council liable for the costs of remediating a site relinquished to the State Government in 1996 but cleared it of negligence in failing to disclose contamination incurred up to 100 years ago by its predecessor.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled that Mobil and the Victorian Government don't have to pay damages to the owner of a site near the company's Altona refinery that was contaminated by a fuel leak.
EPA Victoria chief Nial Finegan has toured major US remediation projects and met US regulators and Alcoa executives as his agency considers clean-up and renewal strategies for the Point Henry smelter site and car assembly plants.
A regulator's innovative campaign targeting leaking underground tanks will start by focusing on a group that has nothing to do with the fuel supply chain.
When new treatment facilities open in the next few months, companies won't be allowed to landfill contaminated soils just because it is cheaper to do so, according to EPA Victoria.