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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 90 asked in the Legislative Council on 20 February 2019 by Hon Robin Chapple

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

WASTE TO ENERGY — RESIDUAL WASTE

90. Hon ROBIN CHAPPLE to the Minister for Environment:

I refer to page 29 of the ''Waste Strategy 2030: Western Australia's Waste Strategy'' and objective 2, ''Recover'', which states —

� material recovery is preferred over energy recovery. Energy recovery is preferable to landfill disposal but should only be applied to residual waste once better practice source separation approaches have been exhausted.

(1) Were ''better practice source separation approaches'' exhausted before the $68 million waste-to-energy plant in Kwinana was approved?

(2) If yes to (1), will the minister explain how?

(3) If no to (1), will the minister revoke the approval for the waste-to-energy plant in Kwinana?

(4) If no to (3), why not?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

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

(1)–(4) The Kwinana waste-to-energy project was approved under the previous government in September 2015, prior to the recent release of the ''Waste Strategy 2030'' in February 2019.

On 14 November 2017, I asked the Environmental Protection Authority to inquire into how implementation conditions relating to approved waste-to-energy proposals should be changed to restrict the waste feedstock to genuinely residual waste, in accordance with the waste hierarchy under section 5 of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007. This request is currently being finalised in consultation with affected parties.