Strategic assessment relating to the impacts of actions under the plan for the Browse Basin common user liquefied natural gas hub precinct and associated activities
Strategic assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2008
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- Comparative analysis of the feasibility of alternative locations for the development of a liquefied natural gas precinct (PDF - 10,870 KB)
- Strategic assessment agreement (PDF - 5,688 KB)
- Media release: Significant step in Kimberley hub site search - 4 July 2008
Strategic assessment agreement
The Minister may agree to undertake a strategic assessment on the impacts of actions under a policy, plan or program under section 146 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Section 146 of the EPBC Act also provides for a public comment period for the draft terms of reference for a report on the impacts to which the agreement relates.
On 6 February 2008, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett signed an agreement with the Western Australian Government to undertake a strategic assessment under the EPBC Act of the impacts of actions under a plan for a proposed common-user LNG precinct to service the Browse Basin gas reserves.
The draft terms of reference for the strategic assessment and the site selection criteria for an LNG precinct were released for public comment between 23 February and 25 March 2008. Following the public comment period, the terms of reference and site selection criteria have been finalised to the satisfaction of the Minister. The maps have also been amended to take into account public and stakeholder comments. A copy of the strategic assessment agreement with the final terms of reference, site selection criteria and amended maps can be downloaded at the link below.
The WA Northern Development Taskforce has also issued an interim report on the LNG hub site selection process, stakeholder consultation and the strategic assessment process. This report is available from the WA Department of State Development .
Comparative analysis of the feasibility of alternative locations for the development of a liquefied natural gas precinct
The Strategic Assessment requires a consideration of technically and economically viable gas processing options outside the Kimberley. The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts commissioned an independent report from consultants GHD to contribute to the examination of the feasibility of alternative sites to an LNG precinct in the Kimberley.
The report, Comparative Analysis of the Feasibility of Alternative Locations for the Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct, is a desk top review of the opportunities and constraints associated with alternate sites for the processing precinct and as such it is not a comprehensive nor definitive analysis. This report has been provided to the WA Government as one input into the Strategic Assessment process.
The issue will need to be addressed as part of the preparation of the draft strategic assessment report. The report was originally commissioned during the site selection short listing and while a number of sites along the Kimberley coast were still under active consideration. Since then James Price Point on the Dampier Peninsula has been selected as the preferred potential location for the LNG precinct, and is now under assessment.
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