This "Search Proposal" function provides all assessment documentation associated with a specific proposal, from referral through to Ministerial Statement, where relevant. Information on a specific proposal not available through this search function can be obtained by contacting DWER, EPA services: info.epa@dwer.wa.gov.au
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Last updated: July 14, 1997
The proposal is to construct a pipeline fabrication site within the exrstmg Mardie Station Pastoral lease and existing Vacant Crown Land Reserve, approximately 45km south west of Dampier and 15km east of Cape Preston is detailed in the CER. Read more...Last updated: June 30, 1997
The proposal is to increase the production capacity of Tiwest's titanium dioxide plant at Kwinana. The proposal is to modify/expand the existing plant to allow an increase in production capacity from 80,000 tonne per annum (tpa) to 180,00 tpa of titanium dioxide pigment in three notional stages: Stage I: increase to 120,000 tpa, Stage 2: increase to 165,000 tpa and Stage 3: increase to nominally 180,000 tpa. The first and second stages of the expansion wilI require major modifications to... Read more...Last updated: May 19, 1997
The proposal is to to expand NufarmCoogee Pty Ltd's Chlor-alkali Plant at Kwinana to allow an increase in chlorine gas production to 42,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) through the installation of a new electrolysis processing circuit. Storage of chlorine held on site will rise from a nominal 50 tonnes to 150 tonnes. Read more...Last updated: November 14, 1996
The proposal is to develop and implement a programme to improve management of dust and reduce the dust impacts from BHP Iron Ore's operations at Finucane Island and Nelson Point in Port Hedland. The proponent has acknowledged that iron ore dust from its operations is an issue of concern to the Port Hedland community and has implemented some dust control measures. In addition, during the assessment of the Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) project in Port Hedland (EPA, 1995), the EPA recognised that... Read more...Last updated: July 2, 1996
The proposal is to expand alumina production from 2.0 million tonnes per annum to 3.5 million tonnes per annum at the Worsley Alumina Refinery, Collie, and undertake associated bauxite mining activities at Boddington. Read more...Last updated: March 26, 1996
The proposal is to construct and operate a Direct Reduction/Hot Briquetted Iron plant near Cape Lambert in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The proposed plant will utilise conventional and commercially proven ore concentration, pelletising and gas-based shaft furnace direct reduction technologies to convert Pilbara iron ore (fines and lump) into HBI. The production capacity of the plant is expected to be 3.6 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) of HBI. The project may be developed in stages... Read more...Last updated: March 15, 1996
The proposal is to establish an export abattoir at Narrikup, 20km north of Albany. Read more...Last updated: September 28, 1995
Tiwest Joint Venture proposes to increase the production of finished titanium dioxide pigment at its Kwinana Pigment Plant from 64,000 to 80,000 tonnes per annum by undertaking a "debottlenecking" process. Read more...Last updated: August 11, 1995
The proposal is to increase the capacity of Alcoa's Wagerup Refinery, located about 120 km south of Perth, from the current 1.7 Mtpa to 3.3 Mtpa of alumina, with a proportionate increase in production of bauxite from the mobile mining operations, currently located at Willowdale, about 8 km east of the refinery. Read more...Last updated: May 12, 1995
In 1987 the EPA assessed a proposal by Australian Gold Reagents Pty Ltd (AGR) to construct and operate a sodium cyanide plant in Kwinana and to transport the product (30% sodium cyanide solution) by road to mine sites for gold extraction. The EPA recommended that road transportation of sodium cyanide solution was unacceptable within a "defined area of concern", which is 50km of the Perth GPO and designated surface and groundwater catchment areas. Subsequently, AGR proposed rail... Read more...Last updated: January 19, 1995
Inquiry under s46 regarding changing the implementation conditions of Ministerial Statement 144 . It is proposed that the refinery effluent, tailings pond liquor and recovered groundwater will be blended in the lined staging pond at Baldivis prior to feeding to the CMF plant. The filtrate from the CMF plant will be returned to the refinery site and treated in the existing reverse osmosis circuit. In addition to the CMF plant, WMC is reviewing current remedial plans, as well as short and long... Read more...Last updated: August 19, 1994
The Tiwest Joint Venture (TJV), the proponent, proposes to increase the production of finished titanium dioxide pigment at its Kwinana Pigment Plant. The Tiwest Joint Venture has requested changes to Condition 1 of the Ministerial Statement of 26 April 1989, relating to the Pigment Plant. Condition 1 restricts the original plant to 54,000 tonnes per annum of finished titanium dioxide pigment, as assessed by the Environmental Protection Authority in Bulletin 373. The proponent now proposes to... Read more...Last updated: March 17, 1994
Inquiry under section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, to change the conditions for sodium cyanide plant debottlenecking Read more...Last updated: March 8, 1994
The former Gasworks site at East Perth was used for the production of gas from coal between 1922 and 1971. Since decommissioning of the gas plant in 1971, structures have been progressively demolished. The site is now used as a services depot by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia, which is the owner of the site. As a result of past operations, extensive contamination by coal tars, including known carcinogenic and toxic organic chemicals, exists on the site and in adjacent areas of... Read more...Last updated: October 7, 1993
The proposal is to expand the capacity of the Whitemans Brick plant, located on the corner of Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road. The proponent seeks approval for the second stage of the plant modernization and expansion, which requires the addition of a second tunnel kiln. Read more...Last updated: November 30, 1992
The proposal is to establish an industrial park at Meenaar, 18km east of Northam and adjacent to the Great Eastern Highway. The park is to cater for mainly agricultural and mineral processing industries. The site was chosen because of its relatively poor environmental and agriculture value, poor groundwater quality, suitable soils for wastewater treatment systems, its remoteness, and the necessity to be located near a major road, railway, and water supply. Of the site area of 639 ha, only 290... Read more...Last updated: August 7, 1992
Additional landscape works and the extension of Fly-Ash Ponds at Turkey Point, Bunbury. Read more...Last updated: May 7, 1992
The proposal is to import ammonium nitrate through Esperance. The elements of the proposal are: there would be eight x 2000 tonne shipments per year ammonium nitrate would be imported in one tonne "bulka bags" some ammonium nitrate would be directly loaded from the ship to road or rail vehicles for transport to Kalgoorlie, and the remainder would be stored on an interim basis in the storage sheds at the Port of Esperance prior to such transport. The ammonium nitrate in this proposal... Read more...Last updated: April 2, 1992
Caltex proposes to consolidate its operations into their existing Brack Street, North Fremantle terminal. Ampol Ltd has also agreed to rationalise its operations and participate in the new development. A joint venture agreement has been reached between Caltex and Ampol and its formalisation is dependent on approvals for the proposal from EPA and other government agencies (Westrail, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Department of Mines) and the City of Fremantle. The consolidation... Read more...Last updated: November 1, 1991
Proposal to establish a cereal straw and waste paper pulp and paper mill near Moora in the Central Midlands district of Western Australia. Read more...