The Western Australian Government has revealed in State Parliament that AngloGold Ashanti has spent more than $1 million cleaning up a diesel spill at its Tropicana gold mine.
Western Australia's Department of Environment Regulation won't proceed with a proposal to require environmental consultants to notify known or suspected contaminated sites.
After years of legal complaints that the WA Contaminated Sites Committee was treating it unfairly, consultancy Coffey has had a partial victory in the State's Supreme Court.
The WA Government has freed up more than $300 million in capital for mining companies by overhauling its approach to managing liability for rehabilitation, says the state's Auditor-General.
The Pilbara is one of Australia's 15 biodiversity hotspots, yet land clearing for mining in the region has grown exponentially and revegetation efforts aren't working, according to the WA EPA.