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Last updated: November 25, 2024
The Western Green Energy Hub is a proposal to design, construct and operate a large-scale wind and solar power project to produce value added products, with the base case assuming green ammonia production. The proposal is situated on WA Mirning Native Title determined land in the far southeast of Western Australia in the Shire of Dundas and City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, to the northwest of Eucla in the South Coast Region. The proposal will be located on Unallocated Crown Land and pastoral leases... Read more...Last updated: July 8, 2024
Alliance Nickel Ltd is proposing to develop the NiWest Nickel Cobalt Project, a greenfield nickel and cobalt mine located approximately 50 km southeast of Leonora, near Mount Kilkenny. The primary product of the mine, nickel sulphate, is to be exported for use in the manufacturing of batteries in electric vehicles. The proposal includes the development of mine pits and associated infrastructure, including but not limited to, a borefield, temporary waste rock landforms, accommodation camp, and... Read more...Last updated: April 1, 2019
Changes to condition 7 (Restricted areas and management of Tetratheco paynteroe ssp. paynterae at the Windarling Range) to allow future ground disturbing access to the restricted 'Area B', and condition 10 (Residual impacts and risk management measures) in terms of revised research and management offset measures for threatened flora species. Read more...Last updated: December 7, 2016
Sirius Gold Pty Ltd proposes to establish an underground mine for nickel and copper in the Fraser Range, Shire of Dundas, 110 kilometres east of Norseman The total proposed area of ground disturbance is approximately 1,100 hectares (ha) comprising 400 ha for the mine and 700 ha for the access road and associated borrow pits. The proposed mine is located in the Great Western Woodlands and in an area remote from human settlements. Product would be transported from the mine by truck in closed... Read more...Last updated: August 8, 2016
The Wilderness Society of WA Inc. referred this proposal to the EPA on the basis of there being no management plan for the wild sandalwood industry, and concerns about the sustainability of the sandalwood industry. The Forest Products Commission of Western Australia (FPC) proposes to undertake the commercial harvesting of wild sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) from Crown lands at a rate of up to 1125 tonnes per year of green sandalwood and 1125 tonnes per year of dead sandalwood, for a period... Read more...