Enforceable undertakings are voluntary, legally binding, written agreements between the EPA and a company or individual that is alleged to have breached environmental legislation.
The agreement includes commitments by the company or individual, in response to an alleged breach, that are designed to improve environmental outcomes and prevent similar incidents occurring in the future.
Primo Foods must pay $150,000 towards community projects in a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) after wastewater from its Western Sydney facility allegedly polluted the Cooks River.
Forestry Corporation of NSW must pay $500,000 towards four environmental projects in a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) following the alleged illegal harvesting of 17 protected trees in Coopernook State Forest on the NSW mid-North Coast.
Ampol must pay $700,000 towards four community projects in a legally binding agreement with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA). This comes after more than 9,000 litres of diesel mixed with floodwaters and spilled from its Kurnell fuel transfer terminal in April last year.
Veolia has permanently shut down landfill at its Horsley Park Waste Management Facility and must pay more than half a million dollars as part of a voluntary legally binding agreement, after the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) found fragments of asbestos scattered across the top of the landfill, on roads and in soil stockpiles.
Sydney Water must pay more than $1.2 million in restoration and prevention costs after it discharged a total of more than half a million litres of untreated sewage in two separate incidents.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has entered into an enforceable undertaking worth an estimated $1.5 million with Consolidated Mining & Civil Pty Ltd (CMC) and Consolidated Broken Hill Holdings Pty Ltd (CBHH) in relation to alleged breaches of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW) (‘POEO Act’).
A dodgy developer in Newcastle has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to clean-up a site on Lake Road, Elermore Vale that was allegedly used to illegally store hazardous construction waste.
Central Waste Plant Pty Ltd has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to pay $111,000 towards conservation and clean-up programs after it received more than double the amount of waste allowed, through its Kurri Kurri facility.
The owner and operator of Bayswater Power Station, AGL Macquarie Pty Limited, has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking worth $1.1 million with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) following the pollution of a local creek.
Lithgow City Council has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to improve its environmental performance after up to 13,000 litres of highly corrosive caustic soda escaped from a sewage treatment plant.
Narrabri Coal Operations Pty Ltd will pay $120,000 to the Environmental Trust as part of an Enforceable Undertaking agreed with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for allegedly transporting hazardous waste which subsequently caused a series of fires at the Narrabri landfill.
AGL Macquarie has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to contribute $100,000 to local air quality and weed eradication projects following a breach of regulations around the management of coal ash.