NSW EPA
A contractor who was paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars to take asbestos contaminated soil to a lawful landfill has been handed a 12-month term of imprisonment, to be served in the community, for faking waste disposal dockets.
Paul Mouawad was sentenced in the Land and Environment Court on 26 February 2021 following prosecution by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) over the disposal of 1,400 tonnes of waste containing asbestos.
An investigation by the EPA found 134 truckloads of asbestos-contaminated soil were collected from a building site in Darlington central Sydney in June and July 2016, but only one truckload was lawfully disposed of at the Elizabeth Drive Landfill at Kemps Creek.
Justice Nicola Pain dismissed the companyâs appeal on Friday finding the IPCâs refusal of the mine was lawful.
Rana Koroglu, a managing lawyer at the Environmental Defenders Office, which represented the alliance, said it was âa historic win not just for Bylong but for everyone working to limit global carbon emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate changeâ.
âWe could not be more pleased for the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance, who have fought courageously for five years to protect their beautiful valley from this mine,â she said.
âThe community provided robust scientific evidence to the IPC on the detrimental environmental, social and economic impacts of the proposal to build a new coalmine in a highly productive agricultural area.
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