A dairy processing company will pay Victoria’s environmental watchdog $650,000 plus $30,000 in costs over three industrial spills, after a first of its kind Supreme Court civil case. The spills that threatened a creek and wetland were breaches of the General Environmental Duty (GED), a part of the Environment Protection Act 2017 that makes it everyone’s responsibility to take reasonable steps to prevent pollution. The case …
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