Be careful when you purchase land you know to be contaminated and be careful when you sell land without remediating known contamination first;
The Queensland government has responded to increasing public focus on the risk to the State of insolvent companies failing to meet environmental compliance obligations by the rapid introduction of proposed changes to the State’s environmental laws.
A number of changes have been implemented recently, giving environmental regulators and courts more enforcement options and increasing the amounts of penalties for certain environmental offences. The penalties payable in NSW under penalty notices for more serious environmental offences have been significantly increased, making them the highest penalty notice fines in…