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Last updated: January 24, 2001
The proposal is for a regional waste processing facility within the Kwinana Heavy Industrial Estate. The site is located on the Swan Coastal Plain approximately 30 kilometres south west of the Perth Central Business District and 3 kilometres north-west of the Town of Kwinana. The site is a large undeveloped piece of land which is adjacent to the British Petroleum (BP) refinery. The nearest residences are located to the north east in Hope Valley (approximately 2.6 kilometres) and to the east in... Read more...Last updated: December 4, 2000
Proposal by Mr W O'Halloran (the proponent and landowner) to clear approximately 184 hectares of native vegetation on Kent Location 1766 in the Shire of Kent for agricultural purposes. The proponent has indicated that the purpose for the proposed clearing is for growing wheat, lupins and sheep. Read more...Last updated: September 18, 2000
Proposal to construct a gas to synthetics plant on the Burrup peninsula. Read more...Last updated: July 13, 2000
The Proposal is for the construction and operation of a facility for the export of iron ore. The facility would consist of three separate parts; a marine component, a terrestrial component and a rail component- Constructed and operated by FPA, KIPL and Westrail respectively. Read more...Last updated: February 11, 2000
Woodside Energy Limited proposes to construct and operate additional Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing trains, the current proposal being for two trains with a total additional capacity of 8 Mtpa at its onshore gas plant on the Burrup. Read more...Last updated: December 16, 1999
The Waste Management Division of the Department of Environmental Protection (the proponent), proposes to remediate the contaminated lands of the OMEX site located between Clayton Street and Purton Place in Bellevue, WA. The Proponent has assumed responsibility for remediating the contamination caused by the previous operator of the site, Western Oil Refining Company. Read more...Last updated: May 31, 1999
Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM), operator of Mt Charlotte underground gold mine in Kalgoorlie, proposes to mine two pits adjacent to Mt Charlotte. These pits will uncover the floor pillars of the Reward and Northern orebodies closest to the surface. the underground portions of these orebodies have already been mined as far as possible from underground. Read more...Last updated: March 18, 1998
The proposal is for the construction and operation of a 650 tonne per day ammonia plant, at CSBP Kwinana site (immediately to the east of the existing ammonia plant), which is located within the Kwinana heavy industry area about 33km south of Perth. Read more...Last updated: January 19, 1998
The proposal is to construct and operate a barge loading facility south of Mowbowra Creek in the Shire of Exmouth for the export of limestone proposed to be mined from the nearby Whitecrest Limestone Mine. The proponent has indicated that a future proposal to develop a larger shipping facility, including a dredged shipping approach, is envisaged. Such a proposal is not considered as part of this assessment, and will require further environmental impact assessment at a later stage should the... Read more...Last updated: December 19, 1997
The proposal is to manage an additional 67 ,500m 3 of contaminated material as part of the rehabilitation of former industrial land at McCabe Street, Mosman Park . Clean-up of this industrial land commenced in 1995 and has been subject to three previous assessments (EPA Bulletins 324, 699 and 807). The proponents are seeking to amend the existing conditions of approval ( Ministerial Statement 338 ) under Section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, to allow for disposal of the... Read more...Last updated: December 12, 1997
The proposal is to establish the Geraldton Steel Plant (GSP) at Oakajee, 23km north of Geraldton. The GSP will be located within the planned Oakajee Industrial Estate in the Shire of Chapman Valley. The proposal will consist of the following main components: a pellet plant in which the majority of iron ore is converted to pellets suitable for direct reduction; two direct reduction plants for the reduction of pelletised iron ore to direct reduced iron; three electric arc furnaces and tlu·ee... Read more...Last updated: October 13, 1997
The proposal is to to increase the production of Kingstream Resources' recently assessed Mid West Iron & Steel Project Geraldton Steel Plant (GSP), at the Narngulu Industrial Estate south-east of Geraldton, from 1.0 Mt/a to 2.4 Mt/a. Changes are also proposed to the product, specifically that slab steel be produced rather than rolled coil, with resulting changes in the requirement for major plant. 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: June 19, 1997
The proposal is to carry out a program of appraisal drilling on the Wonnich petroleum field within permit area TP/8. 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: June 6, 1996
The proposed nickel/cobalt ore mining and processing operation is located near the former gold mining centre of Murrin Murrin, approximately 60km east of Leonora, in Western Australia. The project involves the establishment of open cut mine pits, a processing plant and associated infrastructure. The project will produce refined products of nickel and cobalt as well as an ammonium sulphate by-product. Read more...Last updated: April 19, 1996
The proposal is for the establishment of an iron ore mine at Tallering Peak, 70km north of Mullewa; transport of iron ore by road and rail to the GSP at Narngulu Industrial Estate near Geraldton; and transport of steel product by road from Narngulu to the Port of Geraldton for export. Read more...Last updated: April 9, 1996
The proponent, Tiwest Joint Venture (Tiwest), seeks an amendment to the environmental conditions of Ministerial Statement 59 under Section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, , to allow the synthetic rutile plant at Chandala an increase in nameplate production from 130,000 to 200,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of synthetic rutile. The plant was originally assessed by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in December 1988 and was approved by the Minister for the Environment to build... Read more...