Browsing: <a href="/tag/wa">WA</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/site-contamination">Site contamination</a>

New regulations gazetted by the WA Government require mining companies to pay 1% of their estimated rehabilitation liabilities into a new fund that replaces the state's environmental bond system.

• SA EPA order inelegant, but not invalid
  
• NSW EPA approves Mitsubishi site contamination plan
  
• WA issues new policy on surplus mine water
  
• Council fined $31,500 over sewage pit that 'ran itself'

Environment and water ministers today approved changes to the contaminated sites NEPM, released a draft RIS on managing chemical environmental risks and proposed a national approach to biobanking.

The WA Supreme Court judge has rejected arguments by consultancy Coffey that it had been treated unfairly by the State's Contaminated Sites Committee.

• Former NSW environment boss to lead EPBC committee on CSG and coal mines
  
• Two more landfill gas projects cleared to create CFI credits
  
• Recalcitrant landfill operator finally hands over levy payments
  
• WA Parliament seeks urgent increase in sandalwood harvesting penalties
  
• NSW issues guidelines on hazardous ground gases

WA Treasurer Troy Buswell has described the successful clean-up of extensive lead pollution in Esperance as the largest remediation project ever undertaken in the state.

A bill before the WA Parliament will require miners to pay a levy into a new fund that supports the remediation of abandoned mines.

Global engineering and environment consulting company Coffey Group has won a legal challenge against the WA Contaminated Sites Committee that could ultimately force a review of the committee's procedures for apportioning liability.

The Supreme Court of WA has affirmed that the state's Contaminated Sites Committee isn't bound by the rules of evidence, and can conduct its enquiries and apportion liability "as it thinks fit".

• SA EPA issues warning after 20-year-old contamination report surfaces
  
• WA falling short on best practice, uranium review says
  
• EPA Victoria issues new auditor guideline