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• Minimal impacts, but NSW to introduce new BHPB coal mine limits
  
• Five years on, Dual Gas grant offer lapses
  
• Smart water meter roll-out aims to pinpoint leaks
  
• Queensland raises environmental fees

• WA EPA recommends approval for state's first uranium mine
  
• NSW formalises closure of trading scheme
  
• Mobil distribution depot to end Yarra River discharges

Particle emissions from the Hazelwood brown coal power station more than doubled in a year, particle emissions in Gladstone increased more than 50% and a plunge in BP Kwinana refinery particulate almost entirely offset a hefty increase from CSBP, the latest NPI data shows.

• Department offers training on energy and emissions data reporting
  
• Tribunal declares environment protection notice 'a nullity'
  
• Water meters get smart

• Australia and NZ aim for 2015 trans-Tasman carbon market
  
• WA ends feed-in tariff scheme after one year
  
• Unprecedented dry period prompts Perth to double desal plant size

• Charge more for urban water during droughts, National Water Commission says
  
• Conservation Council challenges WA power station licence
  
• PM quizzes BCA on carbon stance

• Three companies fined over sugar mill pollution
  
• EPA SA launches site contamination index
  
• Federal Government drafts new assessment bilateral agreement with WA

Emissions of 52 of 93 reported substances decreased in 2009-10, but emissions of cyanide from metal ore mining almost doubled, reveals new National Pollutant Inventory data.

• Court rejects developer's bid to delay land clearing hearing
  
• EEO checks identify 'high-risk' businesses
  
• Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton seek EPBC Act approval for Hunter coal mines
  
• WA port to remain closed for lead exports

The company holding the licence to the Montara oilfield won't have its petroleum titles cancelled in the wake of the August 2009 spill, Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said today, while releasing a new report that warns the oil and gas industry must do more to ensure environmental issues are considered in M&A processes.