Browsing: <a href="/tag/water">Water</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/assessments-approvals-licensing">Assessments, approvals, licensing</a>

• Visy, Rio Tinto, hit with prevention notices
  
• New EPBC guidelines released on indigenous engagement
  
• Details emerge on Victoria's coastal and marine changes

• WA seeks feedback on siting and dewatering
  
• Corporate Carbon correction
  
• SA updates water quality policy
  
• NSW sugar mill fined

The Senate has launched an inquiry into unconventional gas extraction, coinciding with a WA inquiry finding the state's safeguards largely sufficient but calling for higher penalties.

A tribunal has rejected arguments by Hanson Construction Materials that it should be allowed to expand a quarry despite water authority concerns that it poses an unacceptable risk.

• WA overhauls licence application procedure
  
• Ingham's odour complaints raised in WA Parliament
  
• Council prosecutes company for lax sediment control

The Queensland Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to a Land Court decision that paved the way for GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine to clear state approval hurdles.

• NSW EPA acts against coal miner, waste companies
  
• Refinery reveals second SO2 breach
  
• NT EPA orders odour audit

• Port and stevedore give enforceable undertakings, pay $54,000
  
• Palaszczuk establishes Cabinet biofuels committee
  
• EPA orders chemicals company to fix long-standing problems

Hydraulic fracking for oil and gas has the potential to affect drinking water but in America there are few cases where this is known to have occurred, according to a major draft study by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has levied a $63,000 fine plus costs on the director of an earthmoving and haulage company who arranged for more than 3,500 tonnes of asbestos-contaminated waste to be removed from a Shell refinery site and illegally dumped at a rural residential property.