Miner to pay $2.9m for taking water without a licence
An Australian mining company which took up to two Olympic swimming pools of water a day for five years without a licence has been ordered to pay nearly $3m compensation.
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An Australian mining company which took up to two Olympic swimming pools of water a day for five years without a licence has been ordered to pay nearly $3m compensation.
Five megalitres of water was incidentally being drained by the Dendrobium coal mine at Mount Kembla, on NSW's South Coast, every day between 2018 and 2023.
The Natural Resources Access Regulator is also prosecuting the alleged theft of water by another irrigator near Wentworth on the Murray
Regulator looking at 26 incidents, with seven involving very large volumes which far exceed amounts subsequently licensed
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