EPA secures $34,000 penalty for private native forestry offences
A Mid North Coast logging company has been ordered to pay over $34,000, and its director placed on a 2-year good behaviour bond, in the Taree Local Court for a range of private native forestry offences at a property in Belbora in 2023.
How the river monitoring gauges are used: Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme
Tumut Waste ordered to pay more than half a million dollars for offensive odours
Tumut Waste has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 for emitting offensive odours at the Bellettes Landfill.
2026 credit auction: Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme
The next credit auction will be held on Wednesday 29 April 2026.
Shoalhaven Recycling fined $30,000 for water pollution
The EPA has fined QSSR Pty Ltd, trading as Shoalhaven Recycling, $30,000 after the valve on a tank was left open and an unknown amount of polluted water flowed into nearby Mulgen Creek near Bomaderry in September 2025.
Problematic plastic to be phased out
Plastics that pollute our waterways, litter our parks and neighbourhoods, and contaminate our recycling efforts are set to be phased out.
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