Ammonia Plant, Burrup Peninsula

Project
Proposal description

The proposal is to construct and operate an ammonia plant on the Burrup Peninsula, approximately 1300 kilometres north of Perth. The selected project site is located in the King Bay-Hearson Cove Industrial Area and is approximately 6 and 10 kilometres from the towns of Dampier and Karratha respectively. The site covers an area of about 72 hectares and the actual plant footprint and infrastructure (including a thermal desalination plant) will occupy an area of approximately 20 hectares.

Assessment Number
1370
Region
Referred under EP Act
s38
Industry sector
Last updated
Current Status
Ministerial Statement published
2. Decision on whether to assess this proposal
Chair's Determination
Preliminary Environmental Factors
Date published
3. Assessment
Scoping
Approved
Environmental Review
Environmental Review documentation
4. EPA Report on assessment
EPA Report Number
1036
Date published
Appeals close
5. Decision on proposal and implementation of proposal
Ministerial Statement
Date of approval
Post-assessment changes
s. 45C amendments

Attachment to Statement 586 - Increas in the capacity of the two captive power plants from 20 to 22 Megawatts (MWs); change the package (plant start-up) boiler configuration from two 100 tonne per hour(tph) boilers to a 150 and 50 tph boiler; and to install one 5 Megawatt emergency diesel generator instead of two 2MW emergency diesel generators - change to proposal approved under s45C on 6 October 2004.

Attachment to Statement 586 - Conditional approval to use Stage 1 of the Bulk Liquids Jetty for the export of ammonia until such time that the jetty is extended to enable other ships to be loaded/unloaded concurrently - change to proposal approved under s45C on 20 October 2004.

Attachment to Statement 586 - change to a Schedule 1 characteristic (start-up steam generation) - change to proposal approved under s45C on 13 December 2005.

Attachment to Statement 586 - change (1) to a commitment (isolation valves along the ammonia export pipeline); and (2) to a description in the Public Environmental Review of the ammonia export process, specifically, the management of liquid ammonia in the pipeline - change to proposal approved under s45C on 11 September 2006.

Attachment 5 to Statement 586 - an increase in disturbance from 28 hectares to 29 hectares; an increase in ammonia production capacity; an increase in atmospheric emissions; an increase in wastewater discharge and some contaminant concentrations; and amendments to the structure and content of Table 1: Summary of key proposal characteristics in Schedule 1 in Ministerial Statement No. 586 to reflect the above changes and to align its format with the requirements of Environmental Assessment Guideline EAG 1: Environmental Assessment Guideline for Defining the Key Characteristics of a Proposal - change to proposal approved under s45C on 5 August 2015.

Date of approval s. 45C
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