Browsing: Victoria

• Victoria launches major renewables auction
  
• New Tasmanian climate law on the way
  
• No supply shortfall for next five years: AEMO grid outlook

A small community group can't take legal action against a planning decision to extend the deadline for building a wind farm, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.

A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.

Victoria shouldn't close off any option for phasing-out fossil gas, according to a new Infrastructure Victoria report, but a supporting study says one approach is weaker than the others.

Viva Energy has failed to convince a tribunal that a childcare centre should not be built 21 metres from the pipeline that transfers crude oil to its Altona refinery.

Victoria's new environment law starts today, introducing a new duty to identify and manage risks to the environment and human health.

The Victorian government has introduced a wide-ranging energy Bill designed to encourage innovative approaches to decarbonisation and reduce energy costs.

EPA Victoria will assist businesses as they adjust to the state's new environment law, but will also have a strong focus on compliance, according to agency chief Lee Miezis.

EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.

• Fortescue exits the ERF
  
• Victoria seeks participants to trial zero-emissions buses
  
• Taylor finalises new bilateral emissions and energy deal