Ministerial Approval Statements

All Ministerial Approval Statements issued under s45(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 are listed below with the most recent appearing first and all are available for download.

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0637 - South West Metropolitan Railway Perth to Mandurah
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 9 September 2005
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0636 - Metropolitan Regional Scheme Amendment - Port Catherine
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0635 - Iron Ore Mine Downstream Processing Direct-Reduced Hot-Briquetted Iron and Port Construction Cape Preston Pilbara
Summary: 44.8 Mtpa iron ore mine in the Cape Preston area with associated infrastructure, including power station, desalination plant, processing plant and accommodation, and port facilities.

Attachment 1 to Statement 635 � Increase in mining rate to approximately 67.4 Mtpa, increase in concentrator rate to approximately 19.6 Mtpa, and increase in the production rate of tailings to approximately 47.8 Mtpa � change to proposal approved under s45C on 8 September 2004.

Attachment 2 to Statement 635 � Changes in project layout and certain increases in infrastructure �footprint�, including relocation of the accommodation village and construction camps, desalination plant, services corridor route, gas pipeline route, waste dumps, tailings dam, port stockpiles, and expansion of the services corridor and use of a buried slurry pipeline in place of conveyor � change to proposal approved under s45C on 13 February 2009.

Attachment 3 to Statement 635 � Relocation of proposed pellet plant from its original location near the project minesite to the project port on Cape Preston � change to proposal approved under s45C on 18 March 2009.

Attachment 4 to Statement 635 � Increases in the �footprint� of the mine pit, waste dumps, and tailings storage facility, as defined by attached delineation coordinates, and increases in mining and processing rates � change to proposal approved under s45C on 3 July 2009.
Release Date: 16 July 2009
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0634 - Development of a Quarry and Industrial Site King Bay, Burrup Peninsula
Summary: The development of a quarry and industrial site on 7.8 hectares of land within the King Bay Eastern Lease Area, Burrup Peninsula.

Attachment 1 to Statement 634 – change to site boundaries and increase in quarry volume – change to proposal approved under s45C on 28 September 2011.
Status: Final
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0633 - Ravensthorpe Nickel Project, Bandalup Hill Shire of Ravensthorpe
Summary: The mining and processing of an average of 10 million tonnes per annum of nickel ore from three ore-bodies (Halleys, Hale-Bopp, and Shoemaker-Levy) near Bandalup Hill, approximately 35 kilometres east of Ravensthorpe, producing 220,000 tonnes per annum of nickel-cobalt hydroxide over a period of approximately 20 years, as documented in Schedule 1.

Attachment 1 to Statement 633 – Increase the maximum allowable area of the evaporation pond from 250 hectares to 391 hectares – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 22 December 2008.

Attachment 2 to Statement 633 – Construct and operate a Sands Reject Storage Facility - change to proposal approved under section 45C on 23 September 2010.
Status: Final
Release Date: 5 September 2003
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0632 - Champion Lakes Master Plan Development, Lake Road Armadale
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 10 July 2008
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0631 - Poultry Litter-Fired Power Station Muchea, Chittering
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0630 - location of the Cedric Street Wetland, City of Stirling
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0629 - Metropolitan Regions Scheme Amendment No 992/33 Clarkson-Butler
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Status: Final
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0628 - Cockburn 2 Combined Cycle Power Plant, Kwinana
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0627 - Koolyanobbing Iron Ore Expansion Windarling Range and Mt Jackson Shire of Yilgarn
Summary:

The expansion of the Koolyanobbing Iron Ore operation by addition of new iron ore mining operations at the Windarling Range and at Mt Jackson, together with a transport corridor connecting the three mining areas, as documented in schedule 1 of this statement.

Also refer to Ministerial Statement 874 for amendments to conditions.

Attachment 1 to Statement 627 – In schedule 1, Key Proposal Characteristics Table – change to proposal approved under s45C on 5 May 2005.

Attachment 2 to Statement 627 – Increase in area of native vegetation clearing at the Windarling W3/5 pit area by 52.9 hectares to develop a new waste dump (47.9 hectares with maximum height of 540m AHD) and extend the area for stock piling (5 hectares) – change to proposal approved under s45C on 11 March 2008.

Attachment 3 to Statement 627 – Correction of error in calculation of mine pit area for Windarling – change to proposal approved under s46C on 4 August 2008.

Attachment 4 to Statement 627 – An increase in ore production of 10/% – change to proposal approved under s45C on 7 October 2008.

Attachment 5 to Statement 627 – Increase ore production at the ore handling plant at Koolyanobbing from 8.8 million tonnes per annum up to 11.5 million tonnes per annum – change to proposal approved under s45C on 20 August 2010.

Attachment 6 to Statement 627 – Change to Schedule 1, Key Proposal Characteristics Table – change to proposal approved under s45C on 13 December 2011.

Attachment 7 to Statement 627 – Reduction of project impacts to Declared Rare Flora – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 25 September 2012.

Attachment 8 to Statement 627 – Increase in disturbance footprint of 45 ha at Windarling to allow for stockpiling of topsoil, subsoil and vegetation materials to be used in future rehabilitation – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 12 October 2012.

Attachment 9 to Statement 627 – Mining of Windarling Range W1 deposit below the groundwater table – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 20 November 2012.


Status: Final
Release Date: 3 June 2003
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0626 - Perth Metropolitan Desalination Proposal
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0625 - Kwinana Combined Cycle Power Plant
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0624 - Kwinana Ammonia Project, Kwinana Industrial Area including Storage, Import and Export of Ammonia
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0623 - Yakabindie Nickel Project, Leonora
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0622 - Pinjarra Cogeneration Project
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0621 - Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine Shire of Busselton
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 25 May 2006
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0620 - Relocation of the Cedric Street Wetland, City of Stilrling
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0619 - Methanol Complex, Burrup Peninsula
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0618 - Coastal Road From Lancelin to Cervantes
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 9 September 2005
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0617 - Methanol Plant and Product Export Within the Withnell East Industrial Area and Dampier Port, Burrup Peninsula
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0616 - Adjustment to Alignment of Product Services Corridor Near the Dampier Public Wharf Burrup Peninsula
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0615 - Donnybrook Woodchip Project
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0614 - Ammonia-Urea Plant, Burrup Peninsula
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 14 October 2005
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0613 - Dredging of Denham Channel, Bar Flats the Slope Island Shipping Berth Freycinet Estuary
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0612 - Remediation of the Midland Railway Workshops Site Areas B, C and D, Midland, City of Swan
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0611 - Hope Downs Iron Ore Project- Rail and Port Facility
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0610 - Commercial Hismelt Plant, Kwinana
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0609 - City of Armadale Town Planning Scheme No.2 Amendment No.143 Lots 6,7 and 8 Wolfe Road, lots 421 and 449 Taylor Road and Lots 27, 432 and 501 Oxley Road, Forrestdale
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0608 - Bullsbrook Turf Farm, Lot 8 Raphael Road, Bullsbrook Shire of Swan
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0607 - Transmission Line From Cataby Substation to Eneabba Substation
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0606 - Telfer Project, Expansion of Telfer Gold Mine, Great Sandy Desert
Summary: The expansion of mining at the Telfer Gold Mine to include the mining and processing of 400 million tonnes of gold ore at a rate of up to 23 million tonnes per annum, and the transport of copper concentrate to Port Hedland by road, as documented in schedule I of this statement. The expansion will require the development or expansion of mine facilities and infrastructure at the Telfer Gold Mine.

Attachment 1 to Statement 606 - To clear 145 hectares of land to house an additional waste dump and additional topsoil stockpiles – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 7 January 2008.

Attachment 2 to Statement 606 – To increase disturbance impacts, by clearing an additional 11.5 hectares for extension of the existing staggers borefield, and increase to ore production, processing throughput and water supply – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 11 January 2012.
Status: Final
Release Date: 1 October 2002
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0605 - Telfer Project, Power Supply Infrastructure Corridor Port Hedland to Telfer Gold Mine, Great Sandy Desert
Summary: Supply of electrical power to the Telfer Gold Mine along a 440 kilometre infrastructure corridor from Port Hedland, as documented in schedule 1. The corridor will contain either a natural gas pipeline to supply a power station at the mine, or an overhead electrical transmission line delivering power from a power station located at Port Hedland.

Attachment 1 to Statement 605 – Alteration to pipeline route from Port Hedland to Telfer – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 19 August 2004.

Attachment 2 to Statement 605 – Consolidation and Amendment of Key Characteristics Table Option 1a (Supplying natural gas from Port Hedland via a buried pipeline to the Telfer Gold Mine for on-site electricity generation at a new open cycle gas fired power plant) – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 2 May 2012.
Status: Final
Release Date: 1 October 2002
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0604 - Samson Brook Redevelopment Scheme, East of the Town of Waroona
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0603 - Transmission Line from Pinjar Gas Turbine Generating Station to Cataby Substation
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0602 - Sodium Cyanide Plant at Kwinana and Transport of Sodium Cyanide By Rail Sodium Cyanide Plant Extension, Kwinana
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0601 - Peel Region Scheme
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0600 - Geraldton Port Enhancement and Preparatory Works for Town Beach Foreshore Redevelopment
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0599 - Long Term Shellsand Dredging Owen Anchorage
Summary: The proposal is to dredge shellsand in the long-term from areas of Success Bank, Parmelia Bank and West Success Bank, as documented in Schedule 1 of this statement.

Attachment 1 to Statement 599 � Clarification of operational tolerances of approved dredging � change to proposal approved under s45C on 11 Mar 2009.

Attachment 2 to Statement 599 � Definition of Stage 2 (West Success Bank) dredging area � s45C change to proposal approved on 19 November 2009.
Release Date: 17 December 2009
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0598 - Hydrological Research Programme at Marandoo. Trial Dewatering Re-injection Test , Karajini National Park
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0597 - Perth-Bunbury Highway, Peel Deviation
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 2 November 2007
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0596 - Gas-Fired Power Station and Natural Gas Pipeline, 12km North-West of Boddington
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 7 September 2004
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0595 - Construction and Use of Tonkin Highway Extension From Mills Road West, Gosnells to South Western Highway, Mundijong
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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0594 - Desalinated Water and Seawater Supplies Project, Burrup Peninsula
Summary: Construct and operate a seawater and desalination plant to service the requirements of new industrial developments on the Burrup Peninsula.

Attachment 1 to Statement 594 - An alternative seawater intake pump station - change to proposal approved under s45C on 5 March 2010.

Attachment 2 to Statement 594 – Construct and operate a six gigalitre per annum reverse osmosis desalination plant to supply industry and domestic customers. – change to proposal approved under s45C on 6 August 2010.
Status: Final
Release Date: 5 June 2002
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0593 - Silicon Smelter Project, Kemerton and Moora
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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0592 - Peel Region Scheme
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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0591 - Boddington and Hedges Gold Mines, Shire of Boddington
Summary: First Attachment to Statement 591 - Change to definition of proposal, multiple key aspects changes / updated figures – section 45C change to proposal approved on 21 March 2006.

Second Attachment to Statement 591 - Change to the description of the BMG camp listed in Table 1 Key Proposal Characteristics in Statement 591 – section 45C change to proposal approved on 7 April 2006.

Third Attachment to Statement 591 - Change to description of the BMG camp listed in Table 1 Key Proposal Characteristics in Statement 591 – section 45C change to proposal approved on 18 August 2006.

Attachment 4 to Statement 591 - Increase to project disturbance area (by 29ha – including 13.81ha of state forest), increase to crushing infrastructure, modifications to the existing Thirty-four Mile Brook diversion and North Clear Water Pond, and change to chemical resource consumption – section 45C change to proposal approved on 24 February 2012.

Attachment 5 to Statement 591 – Increase to native vegetation disturbance area by 1 ha; addition of River Water Dam; increase the storage capacity of D4 Water Supply Reservoir; removal of characteristics regulated under the Dangerous Goods Safety Act 2004 and Part V of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 – change to proposal approved under section 45C on 31 May 2013.
Status: Final
Release Date: 8 May 2002
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0590 - Hedges Gold Project , Shire of Boddington
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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0589 - Dampier Public Wharf Expansion Load-out Facility and Lay-Down Area Port of Dampier
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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0588 - Change to Plant Processes and Waste Acceptance Criteria at the Brookdale Liquid Waste Treatment Facility
Summary: Ministerial Approval Statements
Release Date: 6 September 2004
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