Michael Nicholls 
🚜 We cannot keep digging up PFAS hotspots and hoping landfill space lasts forever. A Flemish consortium led by Jan De Nul has successfully demonstrated an in-situ remediation technique that binds persistent forever chemicals directly within the soil matrix.
🧪 The regulatory focus on PFAS has officially moved beyond the “big three”. The Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has opened public consultation to schedule 14 industrial chemicals under IChEMS.
🌳 “The piecemeal acquisition of land as offsets for individual proposals is unlikely to be a sustainable regional strategy.” — WA EPA Chair Darren Walsh.
Groundwater modelling is often time-consuming. However, a new interpretable AI framework may soon replace months of traditional calibration with rapid, accurate predictions. When assessing multiple overlapping pollution sources, traditional contaminant transport models become com
🔥 “This incident should put everyone in the waste industry on notice that breaches of their permit conditions will have serious consequences.”
Those are the words of EPA Victoria following an $80,000 enforceable undertaking against Re.Cycle Operations Pty Ltd.
⚠️ You can be penalised $150,000 for contaminated material you did not even produce. The NSW EPA has accepted a $150,000 Enforceable Undertaking from the John Holland and CPB Contractors joint venture regarding the Rozelle Parklands asbestos mulch situation.
A $220 million market signal suggests the time for merely monitoring legacy contamination is ending. French environmental services firm Veolia has announced the acquisition of Australian remediation specialist @Enviropacific. This deal integrates a local business with a $250 mill
Understanding the ground beneath us is fundamental to our resilience and prosperity. Federal Minister for Resources Madeleine King has announced a $3.4 billion funding framework that will change how we assess site contamination. Geoscience Australia has released its strategy for
Imagine your entire community relying solely on bottled water for four years. That has been the daily reality for Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia’s most remote Aboriginal community. Following the detection of elevated naturally occurring fluoride and nitrate in the local aquifer i
📋 For the first time in 15 years, the foundational code of practice for investigating contaminated sites has received a major revision. The British Standards Institution has officially published BS 10175:2026.