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Tropicana Gold Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The proposal is the construction and operation of an open cut gold mine and associated infrastructure, located approximately 330 km east-north-east of Kalgoorlie and 200 km east of Laverton. Read more...

Pilbara Energy Generation Power Station

Last updated: November 25, 2024

PEG proposes to construct and operate 14 new gas-fired reciprocating engines with a combined maximum installed capacity of 165 MW. It is expected the average annual throughput of the facility will be approximately 150 MW. The 165 MW power station is expected to result in 609,696 tCO2-e. The proposed PEG power station is located next to the existing Solomon power station and replaces the need for 221 MW power at Iron Bridge, which would have resulted in 1,196,423 tCO2-e. FMG have submitted a... Read more...

Greater Paraburdoo Iron Ore Hub Proposal

Last updated: November 25, 2024

Hamersley Iron Pty Limited (the proponent) propose to develop the Greater Paraburdoo Iron Ore Hub. The proposal is an expansion of the existing operations at Paraburdoo and Eastern Range which is not subject to a Ministerial Statement issued under Part IV of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, (EP Act). The proposal area is located approximately six kilometres south of the town of Paraburdoo in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Existing operations at Paraburdoo and Eastern Range are... Read more...

Ashburton Infrastructure Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The Proposal is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia within a development envelope of 20,821 ha and clearing no more than 1,564 ha. Onslow Infraco Pty Ltd (herein MRL a wholly owned subsidiary of Mineral Resources Limited) is proposing to develop: • A fully sealed private haul road, approximately 125km in length • Gas pipeline and ancillary haul road infrastructure. • Storage and bulk handling of ore at the Port of Ashburton. • Dredging a dedicated berthing pocket adjacent to the... Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The construction of facilities for the development of the Greater Gorgon Gas Fields on the North-West Shelf, and the processing and export of the gas at a liquefied natural gas plant to be constructed on Barrow Island. Read more...

Pluto LNG Development (Site B Option), Burrup Peninsula

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The construction of facilities for the development of the Pluto Gas Field on the North-West Shelf, and the processing and export of the gas at a liquefied natural gas plant to be constructed on the Burrup Peninsula. Extensive dredging will be undertaken adjacent to the export facility. Read more...

Wheatstone Development - Gas Processing, Export Facilities and Infrastructure

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The Proposal is to construct and operate a 25 million tonne per annum Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility and associated Domestic Gas (Domgas) facility in the proposed Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area (ANSIA) 12 kilometres south west of the town of Onslow. Read more...

West Pilbara Iron Ore Project Stage 1 - Mine and Rail

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The proposal is to develop eight iron ore deposits at five locations, between 35 and 85 kilometres (km) south of Pannawonica. A heavy-haulage railway approximately 285 km in length would be developed to connect the mine area with a port to be constructed at Anketell Point, 25 km north-east of Karratha. The project would produce up to 30 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of iron ore. This Ministerial Statement was superseded by Statement 1026 and Statement 1027 published on 4 February 2016. Read more...

McPhee Creek Iron Ore Project

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The Proposal is for the above and below water table mining of iron ore from five open cut pits, located approximately 30 km north of Nullagine. The Proposal includes the development of mine pits and associated infrastructure including but not limited to crushing and screening facilities, waste landforms, run of mine pad, access roads, solar field, administration, accommodation camp, stockpile and laydown areas, borrow pits, groundwater bores and transfer infrastructure, explosives magazine,... Read more...

Roy Hill Infrastructure Railway

Last updated: October 10, 2024

The proposal is to construct and operate a railway of approximately 320 kilometres length and associated infrastructure to transport iron ore from the Roy Hill 1 Iron Ore Mining Project Stages 1 and 2 to facilities at Port Hedland. Read more...

Lumsden Point General Cargo Facility

Last updated: August 12, 2024

The proposal is to develop and operate a general cargo facility within the Port Hedland inner harbour, within the Town of Port Hedland. This proposal has been superseded by the Lumsden Point General Cargo Facility Read more...

Nelson Point Dredging, RGP6 Port Development, Port Hedland

Last updated: August 12, 2024

The proposal involves the dredging of not more than 6 million cubic metres (Mm3) of material for two new berth pockets and extensions to the existing departure channel and swing basin at Nelson Point to accommodate vessels of approximately 250,000 dead weight tonnes (DWT); disposal of dredged material at both offshore in Commonwealth waters site and to a land based dredged material management area (DMMA). This proposal has been superseded by the Lumsden Point General Cargo Facility Read more...

Lumsden Point General Cargo Facility

Last updated: August 12, 2024

The proposal is to undertake dredging and construction to develop and operate a general cargo facility at Lumsden Point, located in Port Hedland. The proposal is a consolidation of the Nelson Point Dredging, RGP6 Port Development, Port Hedland and Lumsden Point General Cargo Facility approved proposals. Ministerial Statements 812 and 967 are now superseded. Read more...

Upgrade of multi-user seawater supply and introduction of wastewater to ocean outfall, Burrup Peninsula (s46)

Last updated: April 19, 2024

The Water Corporation submitted a proposal 'Burrup Peninsula Desalinated Water and Seawater Supplies Project' in May 2001 (Water Corporation, 2001a) to service the requirements of new industrial developments on the Burrup Peninsula. The proposed scheme was designed to supply seawater and desalinated water to the Syntroleum Sweetwater Corporation (Syntroleum) gas to liquids plant, with additional capacity to supply one or possibly two other process plants. The EPA released its report (... Read more...

Asian Renewable Energy Hub

Last updated: April 11, 2024

NW Interconnected Power Pty Ltd is seeking to develop the Asian Renewable Energy Hub. The proposal is to construct and operate a large-scale wind and solar hybrid renewable energy project, approximately 220 km east of Port Hedland, WA. The renewable energy will be exported via a subsea power cable to Indonesia and Singapore. Onshore components comprise a series of linear arrays of wind turbines (up to 1,743 turbines) and solar panels distributed across a 644,600 ha development envelope, with a... Read more...

Koodaideri Iron Ore Mine and Infrastructure Project

Last updated: March 7, 2024

Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited (a wholly -owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto) proposes the development of a major iron ore mining operation in the central Pilbara region of Western Australia. The development will be centered around its Koodaideri deposits, located 110 kilometres west-north-west of Newman. The Proposal will involve the construction and operation of a greenfields mine and associated infrastructure. Mining will consist of open pits and supporting infrastructure, including a 167 kilometre... Read more...

Woodside Solar Facility

Last updated: February 29, 2024

Woodside Energy Ltd (Woodside) proposes to construct and operate the Woodside Solar Facility in the Maitland Strategic Industrial Area, located approximately 15 kilometres south-west of Karratha, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The proposal will generate electricity (up to 500 megawatts) from a large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and includes energy storage (battery) infrastructure. The Proposal is only for the infrastructure associated with the generation and storage of... Read more...

Cloudbreak Life of Mine Expansion

Last updated: February 9, 2024

The proposal includes the existing Cloudbreak iron ore mine and proposed expansion. The existing mine includes open pit strip mining, backfilling of pits, progressive rehabilitation and ore processing. The expansion includes increasing ore production, development of new pits and permanent waste landforms, the development of new infrastructure, additional dewatering and water disposal activities, an upgrade of the ore processing facility. Read more...

Increase in abstraction and reinjection at Cloudbreak Mine

Last updated: February 9, 2024

Fortescue Metals Group Limited proposes to increase the volume of groundwater abstraction and injection limits at the existing Cloudbreak Mine to 150 gigalitres per annum. Read more...

BHP Billiton Iron Ore - Pilbara Strategic Proposal

Last updated: February 5, 2024

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has prepared a Strategic Proposal of its future operations in the Pilbara for the next 50 to 100 years. The Strategic Proposal will facilitate a more holistic and longer term view of mining activities in the Pilbara region by identifying and assessing how impacts to the environment at a landscape scale will be managed. Read more...

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