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Athletic talents on show Lyndhurst Secondary College had a fun Athletics’ Carnival at Casey Fields on Monday 22 July. The day featured a fundraising event, a dress-up competition with dinosaurs and farm animals racing against one another, and multiple track and field events. Story Page 8
Student Omid Hedayat with discus. (Stewart Chambers: 420361)
Licence breached By Violet Li Hallam Road landfill operator Veolia breached its licence and the general environmental duty, the Supreme Court found. Winsome Anderson, who owned a 38-hectare property east of the landfill, accused the landfill operator Veolia of breaching its licence and the general environment duty and interfering with the potential use of her land. The court accepted the two breaches but
dismissed the claim of interference. Ms Anderson is entitled to seek relief from the two breaches under the Environment Protection Act 2017, but she will not be compensated for the assessment of a vent curtain system along the boundary under the claim of interference. The vent curtain system was to mitigate the migrating landfill gas (LFG). The trial started on 15 November 2023 and
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Justice Michael McDonald delivered the judgement on Thursday 18 July 2024. Ms Anderson claimed that Veolia breached its operating licence and general environment duty (GED), as the tip’s landfill gas (LFG) had migrated to her property and exceeded safety benchmarks at the boundary. Veolia rejected the claims. The court ruled that Veolia breached its licence by failing to take all practicable measures
to prevent emissions of LFG from exceeding the prescribed levels by up to 80 times in the subsurface geology at the landfill boundary. It was discovered that between 1 July 2022 and 30 October 2023, Veolia failed to take three practicable measures to prevent emissions of methane gas from exceeding the benchmark in the subsurface geology at the landfill boundary.
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