Disclosure log

The scope of the request relates to documents for the EPBC Approved Project: 2011/6181 SunWater Limited/Water management and use/Jackson-Wandoan Road to Nathan Road, Taroom/QLD/Reedy Creek to Glebe Weir Pipeline Project.

Document(s):

1. The most recent version of the Biodiversity Offset Strategy submitted as a requirement of Condition 6 of the Conditions of Approval (EPBC 2011/6181) (approved on 2 May 2013 or subsequent revised documents).

2. The most recent version(s) of any Biodiversity Offset Management Plans that have been approved or accepted by DOEE as defined in the Biodiversity Offset Strategy (Condition 6 of the Conditions of Approval: 2011/6181).

Please limit documents to only those that outline monitoring and reporting commitments for the Biodiversity Offset for the above project.

3. Documents submitted to DOEE that report on the progress/management/condition of Biodiversity Offsets, as defined in the Biodiversity Offset Strategy (Condition 6 of the Conditions of Approval).

Please limit documents to only those that report on monitoring for the 2018 and 2019 periods.

4. Compliance Report required under Condition 10 of the Conditions of Approval (EPBC 2011/6181) for the 2018-19 period (due on 3 August 2019).
     a.   Please also include documentary evidence providing proof of the date of publication (also required under Condition 10).

All communications, documents, letters, emails, meeting notes, memos and telephone notes passing between the Department and the Environment Council of Central Queensland Inc between 21 December 2017 and 21 December 2018 in respect of Kingvale Station (EPBC 2016/7751) and NSD 1788/2018.

All communications, documents, letters, emails, meeting notes, memos and telephone notes in relation to any meetings, conversations and communications between the Minister and any non­government organisation(s) between 21 December 2018 and 31 October 2019 in respect of Kingvale Station (EPBC 2016/7751)

1. Communications from Angus Taylor MP including letters, emails, notes of phone calls, text messages or diary entries of conversations about the Crudine project and any responses from the department or minister or his office. Please confine the search to 1 January 2016 to 14 March 2017.

2. Communications from the former minister Josh Frydenberg or his office regarding the project including emails, notes of phone calls or requests for briefings and any replies from the department in response to those requests. Please confine the search to 19 July 2016 to 14 March 2017.

I do not require documents relating to arrangements for site visits or meetings. However, I request any reports or summaries of the outcome of the site visit. I do not require documents that are available on the website.

3. Requests for advice from the Minister or his office on whether and how the project can be blocked under the EPBC Act and responses from the department, including internal discussion. Please confine the search to 19 July 2016 to 14 March 2017.

4. Emails (internal, thlrd party or involving the minister's office) that relate to the environmental history of CWP Renewables and related companies between 1 June 2016 and 1 July 2016.

Communications to the minister for the environment or the minister for energy and emissions reduction or their offices including briefing notes, letters, emails and external reports or advice ( such as the letter from the Former Emergency leaders for Climate Change) about the likely outlook for 2019-20 the bushfire season and any responses to these.

Please confine the search from 1 April 2019 to the date of this request.

This request is limited to all CITES import permit cases for coral into Australia from the Solomon Islands for commercial trade purposes only between 2011 and mid-2013 (the date on which the PADS database ceased to be used in respect of CITES import permits), including one or more permit cases from 2013. For the avoidance of doubt, if a CITES import permit was issued in 2010, but the coral arrived in Australia in 2011, please include that data.

1. All documents and materials considered by the Decision Maker for all Australian CITES import permit cases for commercial purposes between 2011 and mid-2013 (the date on which the PADS database ceased to be used in respect of CITES import permits).
2. The import permits showing the decision made by the Decision Maker for all Australian CITES import permit cases for commercial purposes between 2011 and mid-2013 (the date on which the PADS database ceased to be used in respect of CITES import permits).
3. If any statements of reasons has been provided to a person, a copy of that statement of reasons for all Australian CITES import permit cases for commercial purposes between 2011 and mid-2013 (the date on which the PADS database ceased to be used in respect of CITES import permits).
4. Any other notes created by the Decision Maker in relation to the decision for all Australian CITES import permit cases for commercial purposes between 2011 and mid-2013 (the date on which the PADS database ceased to be used in respect of CITES import permits).

Internal Review of FOI 191121

All documents that were before the Minister and/or her delegate for consideration when determining whether to approve the United and Wambo Open Cut Coal Mine Project, Singleton, NSW (EPBC 2015/7600) (Project), including (without limitation) any proposed decision brief (or similar document) and any attachments to it. We note that the Project was approved by The Hon Sussan Ley MP, Minister for the Environment, on 5 December 2019.

The applicant requested copies of documents outlining the number of greyhounds exported overseas including the source region, destination country and loading port from which each greyhound was exported for the year 2019.

In relation to the answers provided to Question 115 from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications Legislation Committee, I ask for:

1. Documents prepared between 2017 and 2020 discussing:

• the impending failure of Victoria to establish the Western Grassland Reserves by 2020
• the need, or not, for a remedial plan, or some similar documents, to counter this failure
• the relationship of this failure to the conditions contained in the Melbourne Strategic Assessment program report or the EPBC Act
• reasons why “Not securing the Western Grassland Reserve in its entirety by 2020 will not constitute a contravention of the conditions attached to the Part 10 approvals”, (including any communications between the Department and Victoria, DELWP or other parties in relation to any of these topics during that period and notes of any discussions between the Commonwealth and the Victorian Government “around opportunities to ensure that the environmental outcomes envisaged by the program are met”).

2. Complete copies of any and all risk assessment and treatment plans maintained during the operation of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment Program and any documents, such as communications, that explain, or provide background on, or discuss those plans

3. Documents showing the agreed amendments made to activities and/or processes, as contemplated by the Melbourne Strategic Assessment Program, since the endorsement of the Program.

4. Copies of all reports by members of the Department’s Office of Compliance of observations made of activities in relation to the Western Grassland Reserves, including those in 2016 and 2019.

5. Copies of notes and outcomes of the discussions held in 2015, 2016 and since between the Department and the Victorian Government (DELWP) regarding the development of a compliance strategy for the MSA Program

• documents explaining what compliance issues under the MSA Program that the Melbourne Strategic Assessment (Environment Mitigation Levy) Bill 2019 will address
• drafts of any compliance strategy prepared by DELWP held by the Department
• documents illustrating the position of the Department or DELWP on public involvement in the process of formal consultation, endorsement and finalization of the strategy.

6. Documents showing when the on-ground surveys and quality assured modeling were conducted for the preparation of the attached map of the Western Grassland Reserves, and the reliability of the data for those surveys and modeling to represent the quality of the grasslands at 2019-2020 as in the attached map.

7. Copies of any communications from the Department to Victoria asking for any economic analyses of the Western Grassland Reserves.