HAZARDOUS WASTE
FACILITIES — MT WALTON AND FORRESTDALE
1014. Hon ROBIN SCOTT to the Minister for Environment:
I refer to ministerial statement
562, specifically commitment 7, which has the effect of preventing the
intractable waste facility at Mt Walton from being used to process waste from
areas outside our state.
(1) Is there a way in which the ministerial statement
can be amended to allow for waste outside WA to be processed?
(2) If yes to
(1), what is the process?
(3) Is the
government open to considering submissions for why the Mt Walton facility
should allow waste from interstate to be processed?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
On behalf of the Minister for Environment,
I thank the honourable member for some notice of question.
(1) Yes.
(2) The
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has advised that a change of
this nature is likely to constitute a revised
proposal and require a valid referral under section 38 of the Environmental
Protection Act 1986.
(3) The state
government has no plans to make any changes to ministerial statement 562.