ENVIRONMENT

HVO to pay $400,000 after alleged water pollution

HV OPERATIONS – a Yancoal-Glencore joint venture – has entered into an enforceable undertaking with the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority, paying $400,000 towards environmental land management improvements, following a water pollution incident at the HVO mine last year.

The alleged water pollution was a result of rainfall runoff from a rehabilitation slope at the Lemington Road mine.

The alleged water pollution was a result of rainfall runoff from a rehabilitation slope at the Lemington Road mine.

EPA director operations metro north Adam Gilligan said the alleged water pollution was a result of rainfall runoff from a rehabilitation slope at the Lemington Road mine being discharged into an adjacent...

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