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Apportioning remediation responsibility - how should the WA Contaminated Sites Committee do it?

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • August 2 2012

The decision in Coffey could have major implications for deciding who is responsible for site contamination

Contaminated sites: pollution without lawful authority?

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • July 5 2012

The Court confirmed that lease covenants for the operation of sites are likely to be very relevant to identifying who's assumed the responsibility of preventing pollution

Accidental breach of section 77A notice leads to $40,000 fine

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 7 2010

The breach of the section 77A Notice could have been avoided through the implementation of a robust environmental compliance system

A development of two halves: related developments' likely impacts

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 24 2011

Consent authorities in NSW might have to consider the likely impacts from other stages of a development, not just the one it is responsible for approving

Xstrata Wandoan, take two: greenhouse gas emissions, mining, and environmental approvals

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 12 2012

Queensland's Land Court has clarified the relevance of greenhouse gas emissions to mining lease and environmental authority applications, but created uncertainty about restricted land

Court decision on contaminated soil "treatment" may lengthen environmental approvals process

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • December 6 2012

The Court's clarification that earthworks such as "mounding and capping" constitutes "treatment" may mean that more development proposals will now be characterised as designated development