Browsing: Victoria

• Queensland minister rejects Cougar Energy report
  
• ACT releases bill to remove 'needless' EIS requirements
  
• Victoria issues review of controls on alternative water supplies
  
• NSW invites applications for Peter Cullen water scholarship

EPA Victoria will shortly conduct a major review of its approach to compliance and enforcement, after being criticised for being aligned too closely with business, chief executive John Merritt has revealed.

• Victoria to smooth way for renewable project assessments
  
• NSW Solar Bonus scheme reaches 50MW review trigger
  
• Trading can work for agriculture: climate lawyer

• Origin maintains green energy dominance, snaps up low-price RECs
  
• Macarthur Coal's mining emissions rise 13%
  
• WA uranium panel not up to scratch: Conservation Council
  
• Victoria boosts funding for five cleaner coal projects
  
• Reform of Victorian Water Act 'urgently needed': EDO
  
• Australian company wins $300 million Thai solar contract

• Victoria launches solar grants program
  
• Geothermal company awarded $7 million grant
  
• Australian science academy warns on climate change
  
• WA minister tweaks Pilbara Iron approval conditions
  
• Climate change prompts winemaker to rethink sourcing strategy

In the wake of a chlorine gas plume that led to site evacuations, a Victorian magistrates' court today ordered Visy Paper Pty Ltd to contribute $100,000 to a community environmental project.

• Enforceable undertaking: port deepening company to pay $75,000
  
• No CO2 offsets required of BHP/Mitsubishi coal mine
  
• BlueScope: trading or a carbon tax is the best for Australia
  
• Faragher tweaks conditions on WA port expansion
  
• NZ scientists slam 'obscure, ridiculous' High Court challenge by sceptics

Victoria's Opposition says the Brumby Government's climate bill gives 'unprecedented power' to the State EPA, while State Labor says its proposed large-scale solar tariff could also support geothermal.

• Queensland boosts coal seam gas inspectorate
  
• Victorian utility sets course for carbon neutrality by 2020
  
• Gladstone air pollutants not at levels of concern: major health study
  
• Climate change a key issue for many voters: ACF polling

• EPA Victoria weighs approval for coal gasification project
  
• 'Watch this space on policy', Coalition says
  
• Qantas to go offshore for offsets
  
• Victorian company ordered to pay $11,000 for waste dumping