MACH Energy
Advised MACH Energy on its acquisition of the Mt Pleasant coal mine including providing advice on planning approvals, biodiversity, water rights and environmental licensing and undertaking purchaser planning and environmental due diligence.
Transport for NSW - One Carrington Street
Advised on voluntary planning agreement and project delivery agreement for the redevelopment of One Carrington Street above Sydney central CBD subway station at Wynyard including extensive upgrade of Wynyard Station concourse. The matter involved drafting and negotiating project documentation with the developer to ensure delivery of works, allocating project risks and managing interfaces with other major transport infrastructure projects simultaneously underway around the project site.
Australian Paper - Victorian waste-to-energy facility
Advised on environmental and planning issues associated with Australian Paper’s proposed Victorian waste-to-energy facility.
Peak Gold Mines
Represented Peak Gold Mines Pty Ltd in defending a criminal prosecution in Class 5 prosecution proceedings for a water pollution offence involving mine tailings
Oakey PFAS contamination
Representing Toowoomba Regional Council and Oakey Beef Exports in Queensland in two separate proceedings against the Department of Defence for PFAS contamination of groundwater and soil at Oakey arising from the historical use of firefighting foams at the Army Aviation Centre Oakey.
Port of Hastings Development Authority
Advised the Port of Hastings Development Authority on the approvals strategy for the environmental impact assessment, planning and other approvals for the Port of Hastings Container Expansion Project, including road and rail infrastructure to connect to port to the existing freight network.
Queensland Alumina Limited
Since 2018, assisting Queensland Alumina Limited in the preparation and implementation of its ‘5 Year Environmental Improvement Program’, which will see the investment of over A$400 million of capital expenditure, coupled with operational and cultural change, to reduce short and long-term environmental risk. Also acted for Queensland Alumina Limited for over 20 years on a range of regulatory enforcement matters (including multiple prosecutions) relating to environmental impacts associated with one of the world’s largest alumina refineries.
Queensland Alumina Limited - Alumina refinery
Advised QAL on a range of environmental incidents associated with its Alumina refinery in Gladstone, including responding to s451 notices, assisting in DES interviews, making submissions to DES, responding to statutory notices, and defending prosecutions.
Vopak
Advised Vopak on environmental risk arising from operations at Port Botany, including acting in the defence of a prosecution for water pollution offences in Port Botany and advising on hazardous waste storage and transportation of vehicle placarding.
John Holland Group - Grafton Gaol PPP projec
Advised on development risk associated with Aboriginal Land Rights legislation for Grafton Gaol PPP project.
Huntlee - New South Wales’s biggest housing project
Acted for LWP in relation to its Huntlee New Town Development (7,500 residential lots) including Land and Environment Court and Court of Appeal proceedings, various planning agreement negotiations and environmental, biodiversity, aboriginal cultural heritage and planning issues.
McDonald’s
Advised McDonald’s in relation to a significant compensation claim arising from the compulsory acquisition of its land that was used for a flagship restaurant on Swanston Street in the CBD of Melbourne for the Metro Tunnel Project.
Huntlee housing project
Negotiated several planning agreements and advising and appearing in two sets of Land and Environment Court proceedings and Court of Appeal proceedings for a A$1.5 billion rezoning and development of land for a whole new town in the Hunter Valley, NSW’s biggest housing project.
Sekisui House - planning and environment appeal
Advised on facilitating the master planning and infrastructure planning of its West Village project at Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane (comprising up to 1,250 apartments, 6,500 m2 of public space and 18,500m2 of retail and entertainment uses).