Michael Nicholls ⏳ A single year of environmental assessment delays on a $400 million project can easily add $20 million in holding and opportunity costs. According to the Queensland Renewable Energy Council, Queensland is moving to examine the economic and regulatory impacts of the 2025 reforms
⏳ A single year of environmental assessment delays on a $400 million project can easily add $20 million in holding and opportunity costs.
🌳 Earning carbon credits and biodiversity certificates on the same parcel of land is now approved. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has released regulatory updates to the legislative methods governing Australia’s Nature Repair Market.
🏔️ Securing environmental approvals in high-elevation regions just became significantly more complex and costly. The Australian Government has officially listed mainland alpine ash forests as an endangered ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
⚠️ Bushfire ash is not just carbon. It is a concentrated delivery system for legacy heavy metals. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has just issued a severe water quality warning across New South Wales and Victoria.
📉 21 percent of coastal groundwater systems globally are now showing statistically detectable trend shifts of 0.1 metres or more per year. A landmark long-term study published this week in Nature Water analysed data from 480,000 coastal monitoring wells.
What happens when federal emissions data tells a different story to your state compliance reports? The Conservation Council of WA has lodged a formal appeal against the DWER licence renewal for Alcoa’s Wagerup Alumina Refinery. The trigger was a 400kg mercury emission spike in 20
📊 What happens when federal emissions data tells a different story to your state compliance reports? The Conservation Council of WA has lodged a formal appeal against the DWER licence renewal for Alcoa’s Wagerup Alumina Refinery.
🦅 Clearing less than 3.5 hectares of native vegetation on a 15,000-hectare mega-project is not just good ecology. It is a masterclass in federal approval strategy. Synergy has referred its 1GW Tathra renewable energy and BESS project for EPBC Act assessment.
🚨 Millions of litres of contaminated firewater runoff have just transformed an industrial emergency into a complex marine pollution event. Following a major blaze at the Viva Energy Geelong refinery, EPA Victoria has issued an urgent water quality warning for Corio Bay.