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Addisons advises on all areas of environmental law including pollution, contamination, environmental compliance and sustainability.
Our clients include industrial operations, property developers, land holders and government.
We assist clients in obtaining state and federal environmental licenses and approvals and ensuring compliance with those approvals. When something goes wrong, we assist in responding to pollution incidents and notices from environmental regulators including the state Environment Protection Authority (EPA), local councils and the Department of Climate Change, Energy and Environment and Water. We also act in environmental prosecutions and enforcement proceedings.
We advise on the purchase, management, regulation and divestment of contaminated land.
We regularly assist clients in carrying out environmental due diligence.
advising on the divestment of a site used for automobile recycling and industrial uses.
acted for a recycling company in relation to EPA enforcement of breach of licence and other environmental investigations. The matter was resolved with an enforceable undertaking. The team has advised other entities on prosecutions including Multiplex, Xstrata, BHP, Thiess.
advised on responding to federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) notices issued in relation to breaches of approvals under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conversation Act 1999.