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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 303 asked in the Legislative Council on 17 June 2021 by Hon Dr Brad Pettitt

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

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.