environmental working group presentation part iii: selecting an lng hub site in the kimberley? tim...
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Environmental Working Group Environmental Working Group Presentation Part III:Presentation Part III:
Selecting an LNG Hub Site in Selecting an LNG Hub Site in the Kimberley?the Kimberley?
Tim Nicol, Resources Liaison Officer, CCWATim Nicol, Resources Liaison Officer, CCWA
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Ranking Sites is Premature
• Kimberley is world class environment deserving of world class decision:– Scientific knowledge is lacking– Heritage assessment is incomplete– TO consultation rushed for such a
complex issue (informed consent)
• Inadequate information to make a decision on any site
• Default position should be no decision until information provided (Precautionary Principle)
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Which Site Can Be Sacrificed?
• Kimberley has outstanding natural and cultural values
• The case has not yet been made that any site can be sacrificed for development
• Considered unlikely that environmental impacts will be acceptable for any Kimberley site
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Alternatives need to be Considered…
• With appropriate assessment consider:– Offshore FLNG– Pilbara (not Barrow or
Burrup)– No development option
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Browse Basin LNG Development and GHG Emissions
• Processing Browse LNG will result in significant CO2 emissions for WA – WA Government target ~26mtpa by 2050– No policy on CO2 Emissions for major projects like Browse Basin
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Browse LNG Developments and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• No robust sequestration options identified
• Biosequestration unacceptable for this magnitude of emissions
• No GHG plan = No Development
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What about Renewable Energy?• WA far behind on
renewable energy opportunities:– California: Ausra 175MW,
BrightSource 200MW baseload solar thermal
– Massive wind capacity– Geothermal underinvestment– LEED fund 35m over 5
years, adequate???– CETO wave project, where is
it now?• Where is the R.E.D.T.?
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Key Impacts: Dredging
• Gorgon: Largest dredging project in WA
• EPA recommendations: One of 5 key reasons Gorgon rejected by EPA
• Dampier Port lost 23-35% coral cover – EPA limit 10%
• Geraldton Port – Investigated by then DEP after dredge plume damaged extensive sea grass
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Key Impacts: Shipping
• Gorgon – EPA quarantine concerns
• Increased shipping• Turbulence• Spills?• Interference with wildlife• Loss of remote and natural
amenity value• Introduced marine pests
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Key Impacts: Water
• Gorgon project (from ERMP) uses 1.9 GL/year– Cape Leveque Coast:
8.3GL/year– Isdell River SWMA: 4.3GL/year– Prince Regent River SWMA:
4.2GL/year– King Edward River SWMA:
4.2GL/year– Drysdale River SWMA:
4.2GL/year
• No water management plans for these areas
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Key Impacts: More People
• More fishing, cars, towns, boats, marinas, roads etc
• Busselton Experience
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Key Impacts: Remote, Natural Experience
• This experience increasingly rare in the world
• Kimberley place of exceptional natural beauty and remote: irreplaceable
• Valued by many people around the world
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The Environmental NGO Experience of Environmental
Impact Assessment• Esperance Lead
Pollution• Dredging at Geraldton• Predictions and
commitments in EIA do not always translate to reality
• Any development is a risk
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The Environmental NGO Experience of “the Boom”
• Environment and Aboriginal heritage comes second to industry:– Eg. Hope Downs and Weeli Wolli
Creek in Pilbara– Eg. Windarling Range in Goldfields– Eg. Pluto LNG Plant on Burrup– Eg. …
• As development increases, more exploration, more mining, more problems for the environment
• Difficult to stop: Thin edge of the wedge
Martu Idja Banyjima Traditional Owner Slim Parker speaking in front of flooded Weeli Wolli creek on YouTube and at Conservation Council event in Perth.
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Ranking Sites is Premature
• Commend the commitment to process thus far, but only a start
• Complex decision in a complex time
• No need to rush