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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 461 asked in the Legislative Council on 10 August 2021 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

FREMANTLE PORT AUTHORITY — IRON ORE EXPORTS — KWINANA BULK TERMINAL

461. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for Ports:

I refer to Fremantle Port Authority's application under part V of the Environmental Protection Act to amend its licence to export iron ore from 5.1 million tonnes to 2.5 million tonnes per annum from August 2020.

(1) What volume of iron ore was exported from the Kwinana Bulk Terminal for the financial years 2016–17 to 2020–21 inclusive?

(2) Why did the Fremantle Port Authority request to decrease its export of iron ore from the Kwinana Bulk Terminal from 5.1 million to 2.5 million tonnes a year effective from 25 August 2020?

(3) Will the minister table the process and the decision within the Fremantle Port Authority to effectively halve its export of iron ore from the Kwinana Bulk Terminal?

(4) If no to (4), why not?

Hon SUE ELLERY replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) The volumes were: in 2016–17, 4 301 838; in 2017–18, 3 138 490; in 2018–19, 16 079; in 2019–20, nil; and in 2020–21, 318 345.

(2)–(4) I table the attached publicly available document.

[See paper 443.]