Mad Butcher liquidator on a ‘ridiculous crusade’, Veritas claims – Stuff.co.nz

The Mad Butcher’s first ever store on Rosella Rd in Mangere. The owner of the Mad Butcher franchise and the liquidator of the butchery chain’s Mangere store could end up in court as lawyers become involved in what has been called a “ridiculous crusade”. This after liquidator Peter Jollands criticised NZX-listed Veritas Investments, which bought…

Linc Energy fights Queensland environment order – The Sydney Morning Herald

The liquidators for Linc Energy have launched a legal challenge to the Queensland government’s environmental protection order on its operation near Chinchilla, claiming liquidated companies should not need to comply. Former Linc Energy chief executive Peter Bond was issued with the order in May, requiring him to take steps to rehabilitate contaminated soils at the…

Former Linc Energy executives face charges – The Sydney Morning Herald

Green groups are calling for more underground coal gasification projects to be stopped after the Queensland government charged five Linc Energy executives. The five executives will face court in Dalby later this month over the failed company’s operation of an underground coal gasification site in the Darling Downs. Former Linc chief executive Peter Bond was…

McAleese’s future closer to resolution after new restructuring pitch – The Australian Financial Review

McAleese CEO Mark Rowsthorn is still hopeful of restructuring the trucking group Cole Bennetts McAleese’s administrators, McGrathNicol, have received a new restructuring proposal from Hong Kong’s SC Lowy and plan to discuss the transport group’s options, which include liquidation, with creditors next month. McGrathNicol is reviewing draft deeds of company arrangement from McAleese’s secured creditors, the administrators said on…

Linc Energy’s former executives charged with environmental offences – ABC Online

The Queensland Government has charged five former executives of Linc Energy with environmental offences over the failed company’s alleged contamination of huge swathes of prime farmland in the state’s south-east. Key points: Charges related to alleged contamination caused by underground coal gasification Four other former Linc executives also summonsed Company has denied the charges…