Browsing: <a href="/tag/wa">WA</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/air-pollution-odour">Air pollution, odour</a>

Western Australia framework environmental law doesn't prohibit 'offensive odours' and and there is no basis for amending a facility licence to include the term, Environment Minister Bill Marmion has ruled.

The WA EPA says BHP Billiton Iron Ore should conduct a technology 'gap analysis' to help tackle dust problems that have long plagued Port Hedland, but has nevertheless recommended approval of its massive outer harbour expansion project.

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• Smoky vehicle fine reduced on appeal

• Orica defends NPI emissions data
  
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• Government's native forest biomass RET ban plan 'disingenuous': AFPA
  
• Woodside issues draft EIS for Browse offshore
  
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A WA tribunal says environment department resource constraints and a lack of air quality data warrant putting on hold a housing project near Alcoa's bauxite residue storage areas, even though the development would be consistent with planning rules.

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The West Australian environment department has charged Cockburn Cement with air pollution, alleging the company was responsible for the release of lime kiln dust from its premises in April last year.

Cockburn Cement has won a WA Supreme Court battle to overturn a ministerial deadline for new air pollution control equipment on a kiln that one community member last month told the company is 'making our lives horrendous'.

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Cockburn Cement's Munster plant, currently undergoing a WA parliamentary review and preparing for the installation of a $23 million baghouse filter on one kiln, must now put in place new pollution controls on another of its six kilns.