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Export of woodchips from Eucalyptus globulus plantations

Project
Proponent: 
Bunnings Forest Products Pty Ltd
Proposal description: 

The proposal is to harvest and export approximately 163,000 tonnes of Eucalyptus globulus woodchips from private plantations over the next five years. A trial shipment of approximately 13,000 tonnes is planned for 1993 with exports rising to 70,000 tonnes per year by 1997.

In the 1993 trial, logs will be obtained from nine plantation blocks and transported to WA Chip and Pulp's (WACAP) Diamond Chip Mill to be processed into paper pulp chips. The product will then be hauled to the Bunbury Port by rail and transfered to ship for export using the company's existing facilities at the port site.

Harvested areas will be regenerated from coppice re-growth on the cut stumps and the site fertilized the following winter. The second rotation is planned to be harvested approximately eight years later.

Assessment Number: 
689
Region: 
South West
Referred under EP Act: 
s38
Industry sector: 
Clearing
Last updated: 
December 17, 1997
Current Status: 
Ministerial Statement published
Ministerial Statement published
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination: 
Consultative Environmental Review
Date published: 
Monday, 28 December, 1992
3. Assessment
Scoping
Approved: 
Friday, 28 February, 1992
Environmental Review
Public submissions: 
Friday, 12 February, 1993 to Friday, 12 March, 1993
Environmental Review documentation: 
PDF icon Consultative Environmental Review document
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number: 
687
EPA Report: 
PDF icon Export of woodchips from Eucalyptus globulus plantations
Date published: 
Friday, 2 July, 1993
Appeals close: 
Friday, 23 July, 1993
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval: 
Thursday, 18 November, 1993
Ministerial Statement: 
PDF icon Ministerial Statement 330
Post-assessment changes
s. 45C amendments: 

Attachment to Statement 330 - increase by approximately 10,000 tonnes the 5-year volume of woodchips - change to proposal approved on 17 December 1997.

Date of approval s. 45C: 
Wednesday, 17 December, 1997

Source URL:https://www.epa.wa.gov.au/proposals/export-woodchips-eucalyptus-globulus-plantations