Last updated: July 12, 2021
The Banksia Road Landfill is located in the Shire of Dardanup approximately 10 kilometres (km) from the City of Bunbury and 3.8 km south-east of the town of Dardanup. The Landfill is currently operating under a Licence issued through Part V of the Environmental Protection Act (Licence - L8904/2015/1) which allows for the acceptance of Liquid Waste; and Class II and Class III putrescible waste. The proposal would be a continuation of the current operations and including the establishment of... Read more...Last updated: May 31, 2021
The requested change relates to changing condition 9 in order to contemporise the condition with the Environmental Factor Guideline – Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions (EPA 2020) Read more...Last updated: May 31, 2021
WA Offshore Windfarm Pty Ltd is proposing the construction, operation and decommissioning of the Western Australian Offshore Windfarm project. The project will be located approximately 5.5 km off the coast between Preston Beach and Myalup and will have a generation capacity of up to 300 MW. The Project will comprise up to 37 offshore wind turbine generators (WTGs) with supporting offshore and onshore electrical assets to transfer energy generated by the windfarm to the existing electricity... Read more...Last updated: May 17, 2021
Doral Mineral Sands Pty Ltd is proposing to develop and operate a mineral sands deposit approximately 11 kilometres southeast of Busselton. The proposal includes the development of mine pits and associated infrastructure, wet concentration processing plant, solar evaporation ponds, groundwater abstraction and water management infrastructure and process water pond. The proposal would include a total disturbance of 453.34 hectares within a development envelope of 924.8 hectares. The majority of... Read more...Last updated: April 19, 2021
The, Southern Forest Irrigation Scheme, proposal involves taking water from the Donnelly River to irrigate land for horticultural and agricultural production in the southern forests region around Manjimup and Pemberton. The proposal is to construct and operate a water offtake (pump station) adjacent to the Donnelly River, a reservoir on Record Brook (a tributary of the Donnelly River), two header dams and a network of distribution water pipelines and associated infrastructure to supply water to... Read more...Last updated: January 18, 2021
The Proposal is to develop a new bridge with a single lane dual carriage road and dual use path over the Preston River, to Turkey Point, Bunbury, Western Australia. The Proposal requires a disturbance footprint of 9.59 ha within the overall Proposal Development Envelope (DE) of 11.34 ha. Subtropical Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh Threatened Ecological Community (VT03 and VT04) is present within the Proposal DE and will require clearing of approximately 1.36 ha. 1.22 ha has been identified as... Read more...Last updated: December 14, 2020
The Commissioner of Main Roads Western Australia is proposing to construct and operate the northern section and upgrade the central section of the Bunbury Outer Ring Road (BORR). The proposal includes 19km of freeway-standard dual carriageway and associated interchanges between Forrest Highway and Boyanup-Picton Road (northern section) and between Boyanup-Picton Road and South West Highway (central section). The proposal would require the clearing of up to 73 hectares of native vegetation... Read more...Last updated: December 14, 2020
Main Roads Western Australia is proposing to construct and operate the southern section of the Bunbury Outer Ring Road (BORR). The proposal includes 10.5 km of freeway-standard dual carriageway, 3 km of rural distributor roads and other associated road-infrastructure. The BORR southern section will connect to the proposed northern and central sections of BORR near South West Highway, which together will complete a bypass around Bunbury City from Forest Highway to Bussell Highway. The BORR... Read more...Last updated: October 26, 2020
Change to Condition 9 (Rehabilitation) to remove reference to northern portion of Lot 2 Read more...Last updated: September 29, 2020
Meynell Pty Ltd intends to subdivide Lot 9002 Prowse Road, Capel to create 70 lots for residential development, associated access roads and a reserve for recreation and drainage. The proposal area is 15.5 hectares (ha) of which approximately 11.5 ha is proposed for development. Read more...Last updated: September 14, 2020
Change to condition 2-1 in order to extend the Time Limit for substantial commencement of the proposal. Read more...Last updated: July 27, 2020
MRWA is proposing to construct and operate Stage 2 (the Southern Link) and 3b (part of the Western Link) portion of the Albany Ring Road Proposal (ARR). The proposal includes construction and operation of seven kilometres of new road which will connect the intersection of South Coastal Highway and Link Road to the Port of Albany around the City of Albany. Stage 2 of the ARR is the southern link of the ring road located between the Lower Denmark Road George Street Intersection and Frenchman... Read more...Last updated: May 11, 2020
The purpose of the proposal aims to continue to catch, tag, relocate and release white sharks to better understand their movements following release. A range of tiger sharks and mako sharks will also be satellite and acoustic tagged as part of this proposal. This proposal is for the continuation of the SMART (Shark Management Alert in Real Time) drumline trial for an additional 12 months (until May 2021). The trial extension will provide additional data to assist in determining the... Read more...Last updated: April 6, 2020
Talison Lithium Australia Pty Ltd (Talison) is proposing to expand the existing Greenbushes Lithium Mine that has been operated for over 30 years, to increase the production of spodumene ore and lithium mineral concentrate from the operation. This proposal is an expansion of the existing mining operation and has not previously been assessed by the EPA. The mine is located in the South West of Western Australia, immediately south of the town of Greenbushes, approximately 250 km south east of... Read more...Last updated: February 3, 2020
Main Road WA proposes to construct and operate 5 km of duel carriageway around the City of Albany to allow heavy freight vehicles to bypass local traffic to access the Port of Albany. The proposal involves clearing of 11.6 ha of native vegetation and 8.6 ha of non-native vegetation within a 96 ha development envelope. Read more...Last updated: January 13, 2020
Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd (Albemarle) is proposing to stablish the Albemarle Kemerton Plant, a Lithium hydroxide Product manufacturing plant and associated infrastructure, within the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA), approximately 17 kilometres north-east of Bunbury. The Albemarle Kemerton Plant will produce up to 100,000 tonne per annum (tpa) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (Lithium Hydroxide Product) from five 20,000 tpa process trains and produce up to 1,100,000 tpa of tailings.... Read more...Last updated: December 13, 2019
The South Coast Highway Kojaneerup Project involves the reconstruction of the Kojaneerup Section of the South Coast Highway, between Straight Line Kilometre (SLK) 46.4 and 65.7, generally bound between Cheyne Road (south) and Kojaneerup West Road (north) in the localities of Manypeaks and Green Range, located approximately 40km north-east of the City of Albany. The total development envelope is 136 hectares, of which 31 ha is native vegetation that will be removed. Clearing will occur in a... Read more...Last updated: December 10, 2019
The proposal is to develop, mine, rehabilitate and decommission the Yoongarillup Mineral Sands Project. The proposal is located approximately 17 kilometres south east of Busselton. The proposal includes the construction of associated mine infrastructure (offices, workshops, laydown area, roads, and ore processing facilities), the backfilling of mined pits and the rehabilitation and decommissioning of disturbed areas. Read more...Last updated: October 7, 2019
The proposal aims to reduce the flow of high salinity river water entering Wellington Dam and improve the quality of dam water for irrigated agriculture in the Collie and Myalup irrigation districts. The proposal is to construct a weir, pump stations and pipeline infrastructure and take saline water from the Collie River East Branch of the Upper Collie River, construct and operate a reverse osmosis Water Treatment Plant and supply desalinated water to the Water Corporation via Harris River Dam. Read more...Last updated: October 1, 2019
The proposal is for the works and operation of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and woodlot reuse scheme for the first three years. This will enable monitoring and evaluation to be undertaken to determine a longer term strategy for development and operation of the scheme. The proposed works and operation for the first three years form part of planned Stage 1 of the scheme, which will extend to the year 2010. A further two stages (extending to 2040) are planned for the future. Read more...