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Environmental Alert

23 Oct 2013 1 min read Article

In this issue

  • The National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, No 39 of 2004 (AQA): significant penalty increases and welcomed proposed streamlining of environmental consent applications
  • Developments in proposed environmental regulation of fracking
  • Changes to the regime for the classification and management of waste

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