PLUTO LNG FACILITY —
GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGRAM
303. Hon Dr BRAD PETTITT to the minister representing the
Minister for Environment:
I
refer to the recently approved greenhouse gas abatement program for the Pluto
liquefied natural gas facility expansion.
(1) Can the
minister please advise what advice or information she took into consideration
when approving the program?
(2) Will the minister please table all such advice,
policies or other information that was taken into consideration when
approving the GGAP?
(3) If no to (2),
why not?
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the
honourable member for some notice of the question.
(1)–(3) Under the requirements of ministerial statement
757, which approves the Pluto LNG facility, condition 12 requires the proponent to develop a greenhouse gas
abatement program to the requirements of the Minister for Environment on advice from the Environmental
Protection Authority. In making the decision to approve the GGAP under
ministerial statement 757, the Minister for Environment has advised that she
considered the following advice and
information from the Environmental Protection Authority. A memorandum from the Environmental Protection Authority to the Minister
for Environment titled ''Pluto LNG Development — Approval
of Greenhouse Gas Management Plan'' dated 11 May 2021, including the
attachments 1 to 3, as follows: attachment 1, ministerial statement 757, 2007;
attachment 2, ''Environmental Factor: Guideline Greenhouse Gas Emissions'',
Environmental Protection Authority, 2020; and attachment 3, ''Pluto LNG
Facility Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program: April 2021, Rev 3''. I now
table these documents on behalf of the Minister for Environment.
[See paper 289.]
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON: I am also advised
that the Minister for Environment considered the Western Australian state
government's ''Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policy for Major
Projects'', which is publicly available on the Department of Mines,
Industry Regulation and Safety website. The Minister for Environment has
further advised that she was aware of a range
of other publicly available information, targeted correspondence from key
stakeholders and broad contextual
information provided by the EPA and the Department of Water and Environmental
Regulation. The minister advises that
it would not be feasible to table the full range of contextual information that
was peripheral to her decision-making in relation to the GGAP.