The Public Health Association (PHA) has warned against changing the Resource Management Act (RMA) at the expense of people’s health. (Read on …)

An unlikely alliance is forming between big business and environmental groups against a proposed law change they say will shut them out of important planning decisions.

Mall giant Westfield, mining company Winstone Aggregates and environment groups the Forest and Bird Society and the Environmental Defence Society are among more than a dozen submitters who have asked the Government to scrap planned limits to cut down on Environment Court appeals. (Read on …)

One of the world’s largest marine terminal operators was convicted today in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on a charge of polluting the atmosphere, and was ordered to pay $80,000 towards the construction of a community garden at Docklands. (Read on …)

A waste company has been hit with the largest fine for breaching the Environment Protection Act in the State’s history over an oil spill at Largs North.
Mulhern’s Waste Oil Removal Pty Ltd was this week fined $460,000 in the Environment, Resources and Development Court.
The company was convicted and fined after pleading guilty to one count of polluting the environment causing serious environmental harm and nine counts of contravening conditions.
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Prosecutions under the Resource Management Act have leapt, with the agricultural sector the main culprit.

An Environment Ministry report showed 260 prosecutions nationwide from May 1, 2005, till June 30 last year.

That compared with 171 prosecutions from July 1, 2001, till April 30, 2005, an increase of 52 per cent.

The number of prosecutions each year has grown from 45 to 82. (Read on …)

Greater Wellington is prosecuting Wairarapa landowner Selwyn McLachlan and farm manager Matthew Honeysett following an incident in which dairy effluent entered a tributary of the Ruamahanga River behind Gordon Street, Masterton. (Read on …)

One of the world’s largest marine terminal operators was convicted today in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on a charge of polluting the atmosphere, and was ordered to pay $80,000 towards the construction of a community garden at Docklands.

EPA Victoria charged DP World Australia Ltd under the Environment Protection Act for pollution of the atmosphere at its facilities in the Port of Melbourne. (Read on …)

A waste company has been hit with the largest fine for breaching the Environment Protection Act in the State’s history over an oil spill at Largs North.
Mulhern’s Waste Oil Removal Pty Ltd was this week fined $460,000 in the Environment, Resources and Development Court. (Read on …)