Disclosure log

The following documents, to the extent that they relate to the decision to refuse a request to suspend the approval for the Western Highway Project Section 2 – Beaufort to Ararat, Victoria (EPBC 2010/5741):

[Item 1] the recommendation brief for the decision

[Item 2] the “Advice from the Department’s Wildlife, Heritage and Marine Division (WHAM) attached to the brief

1. Correspondence received by the Department of Energy and Environment from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre between 1 August and 15 November 2018 containing the words "Warragamba Dam".

2. Correspondence sent by the Department of Energy and Environment to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre between 1 August and 15 November 2018 containing the words "Warragamba Dam".

1. A copy of any correspondence and records of communications (including emails, letters and file notes of telephone conversations and meetings) created between 7 February 2018 and 10 October 2018, between:

• Whitehaven Coal Limited and/or Aston Coal 2 Pty Ltd (the Proponent); and
•  the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, concerning the land that the Proponent intends and/or proposes to secure under legally binding covenant/s for the purpose of  fulfilling the offset requirements under Conditions 9-13 of the Approval given under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) for the Maules Creek Coal Mine Project (EPBC 2010/5566) (the Offset Requirements), but excluding from that correspondence any financial information and/or personal information; and

2.  A copy of any correspondence and records of communications (including emails, letters and file notes of telephone conversations and meetings) created between 7 February 2018 and 10 October 2018, between:

• the NSW Department of Planning and Environment and/or the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and/or the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service; and
• the Commonwealth Department of the Environment,concerning the land that the proponent proposes to secure under legally binding covenant/s for the purpose of fulfilling the Offset Requirements, but excluding from that correspondence any financial information and/or personal information.

Records of calls between the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan and the deputy secretary of the environment protection group Dean Knudson for the month of October 2018.

Correspondence between the department and the environment minister Melissa Price and/or her office and/or her staff, regarding Adani's Groundwater Management and Monitoring Plan. Correspondence for the month of October 2018

I am writing to request a copy of the Pre-feasibility study on the West-East Gas Pipeline (conducted by ACIL Allen, in conjunction with GHD) to investigate the construction of a gas pipeline to link Western Australia to the east coast gas market.

The Department of the Environment and Energy announced the successful tenderer for the study in October 2017 and the study was due for completion in March 2018. My understanding is that the study was completed and provided to the then Minister for the Environment and Energy, Hon Josh Frydenberg, in March 2018.

I am requesting the feasibility study report on the "West-East Gas Pipeline pre-feasibility" that was commissioned by the Federal Energy Minister and was completed by ACIL Allen, in conjunction with GHD. The tender of the study was announced on the 30th of October 2017 and reportedly completed in March 2018.

The pre-feasibility report prepared by ACIL Allen/GHD assessing the viability of the West-East gas transmission pipeline. (~March 2018)

Access to the following documentation, to the extent that they contain information regarding the methodology utilised for the assessment of the impacts and EIS Offsets for the Warragamba Dam Raising:
[Item 1] Minutes of meetings between the Department and NSW Government agencies (and its contractors)
[item 2] Correspondence between the Department and the Minister

[Item 1] The decision brief (including any attachments to that brief) for the approval on EPBC 2009/5017, signed on 11 April 2014.

[Item 2] The decision brief (including any attachments to that brief) for the subsequent variation to that approval, signed on 10 April 2015.