Governments have been left to foot the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for rehabilitation costs following high profile collapses of mining and energy companies. In response, legislation has been passed by federal, state and territory governments enabling them to pass on these costs to ‘related persons’, which could include directors and officers.

In this article, W+K environmental liability specialist Charu Stevenson, looks at this significant risk and the associated issues of chain of responsibility and disclosure obligations.

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