Costs ordered against an environmental offender form part of the overall penalty and may justify lower fines. The availability of Local Court proceedings for non-Tier 1 environmental offences under the POEO Act may be treated as a mitigating factor. Fines totalling $4,500 plus costs of $15,727 for dumping 11,000 litres of septic waste were considered very lenient but not disturbed on a Crown appeal.
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