What is Environmental Harm, and how do you comply with the General Environmental Duty?
Environmental Harm is any adverse effect, or potential adverse effect on an environmental value. The adverse effect or potentially adverse effect, can be temporary, permanent, and of varying degrees of magnitude, duration or frequency. It includes an environmental nuisance.* Environmental […]
What is an Environmental Protection Order?
An Environmental Protection Order (or EPO) is a written document issued pursuant to the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (the Act) requiring the recipient to undertake certain actions within a specific timeframe, so as to remedy an environmental risk or prevent […]
Though much has been made in the media of the ‘death’ of the mining boom in Australia, it is easy to forget the cyclical nature of the industry and exploration is occurring all the time, whether for new mining ventures […]
One feature of mining, regardless if it is mining for minerals, metals or other resources, is the frequency of entering into contracts, with contractors, suppliers, joint venture partners, landowners, and so on. And when it comes time to enter into […]
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