New procedures will streamline WA's regime for environmental impact assessment, while a supporting guideline prescribes the EPA's 'target timelines' and outlines proponents' responsibilities for submitting information.
A WA composting facility that diverts thousands of tonnes of waste from landfill and has spent more than $2.4 million in the last two years to address odour problems, has lost its appeal against licence amendments that require it to ensure odours don't 'interfere' with anyone off-site.
WA Environment Minister Donna Faragher has issued an approval for Perdaman to proceed with a $2.5 billion urea plant, conditional on it matching or improving on the greenhouse gas intensity of equivalent plants, but has ignored an EPA recommendation on a deadline for deploying CCS.
WA's Auditor General is preparing to investigate the enforcement of the mining sector's compliance with environmental approval conditions, after complaints from the State's Conservation Council that regulation of the industry is too secretive.
