Disclosure log

I request the documents of the Energy Security Board’s most recent economic and market modelling of the National Energy Guarantee, conducted by ACIL Allen.

I request all correspondence between the Department of the Environment and Energy and the Energy Security Board relating to the publication or provision of these documents to state and territory energy ministers.

[Item 1] All documentation provided by the Department of Environment and Energy to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg regarding the $443 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation prior to the April 9 meeting between Turnbull, Frydenberg, and chair of the foundation John Schubert.

[Item 2] Correspondence between the Department of Environment and Energy and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation regarding the $443 million grant between 1 Feb and April 30 2018. 

[Item 3] Any interactions/meetings/hospitality between any of the board members of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation or its managing director Anna Marsden and Department of Environment secretary Finn Pratt , in which the finances of the foundation were discussed, since 1 Jan 2018.

[Item 4] Diaries for 9 April for Department of Environment officials Pratt, Oxley, Knudson and Callister.

1. I refer to the decision by Mr Shane Gaddes dated 19 November 2015 varying the conditions of approval for “Burnside Development - The Point, Victoria - EPBC 2011/6063” as on the Department’s website. In relation to this decision, I ask for a copy of the documents stimulating the changes for paragraphs 13 and 16 of the conditions, documents showing the process involved in making the changes, plus any documents that contribute to explaining:
   • the reasons for the change
   • the reasons for the change at that time;
   • the rationale for the wording of the amendments, including the reasons for not stating a specific size of offsets in the variation for paragraphs 13 and 16
   • the contribution of the developer or any other entity to making and/or negotiating the variation
   • the reaction of the developer or any other entity to the decision.
2. I refer to the “Consolidated Approval Notice Burnside Development - The Point, Victoria (EPBC 2011/6063)” signed by Mr James Baker on 4 August 2017 as on the Department’s website, and specifically to paragraphs 6, 6A, 8,13 and 16 of the conditions. In relation to these paragraphs, I ask for a copy of the following documents:
   • documents showing the stimulus for the changes and documents showing the process involved in making the changes to offsetting destruction of grasslands and habitat of the Striped Legless Lizard as written in the original decision of 20 July 2015 and the amended decision of 19 November 2015, plus any documents that contribute to explaining:
   • the reasons for the change;
   • the rationale for the wording of the amendments, including the reasons for not stating a specific size of offsets in the new paragraphs;
   • the contribution of the developer or any other entity to making and/or negotiating the variation
   • the reaction of the developer or any other entity to the decision.
3. I relation to paragraph 6A of the “Consolidated Approval Notice Burnside Development - The Point, Victoria (EPBC 2011/6063)” signed by Mr James Baker on 4 August 2017, I ask for documents relied upon by the Department to justify paragraph 6A(b) and explain:
   • why the Department considers that the 'Burnside Development' meets the criteria of the Melbourne Urban Development Policy; and
   • what manner of offsetting by the company for this development the Department considers to be consistent with the Melbourne Urban Development Policy.

I ask that all departmental staff names written in such documents supplied to me be unredacted.

Documents associated with discussions, deliberations and correspondence regarding the Environmental Impact Statement of Santos' Narrabri project in NSW.

• From 1st February 2017 to present.
• Excluding Santos' public EIS documents, and public response to submissions.
• Excluding public submissions to the EIS as received and collated by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.
• Documents from within the Department of Environment and Energy and the Minister for the Environment and Energy (including Minister's office).
• Correspondence between the Department of Environment and Energy and the Minister for the Environment and Energy (including Minister's office) and the NSW Department for Planning and Environment.

Any advice (including drafts) and any correspondence provided by the Department of the Environment and Energy to the Minister for the Environment and Energy, or his office, between 1 April 2017 and 1 August 2017 that relates to the proposed Toondah Harbour Development in Queensland (EPBC 2015/7612 and 2017/7939).

Documents that evaluate the best service providers for the delivery of projects on the Great Barrier Reef. Documents from the past 12 months are sought.

All communications between you or your Office and the Department of Environment and Energy which relate to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation - created or received between 1 April 2018 to 30 April 2018 inclusive.

The documents in the requests above include, but are not limited to, emails, attachments to emails, text messages, letters, notes of meetings and phone calls (being records of communications), briefs, attachments to briefs (including Ministerial adviser notes), reports, instructions and drafts of any of the above.

Documents being or evidencing communications to and/or from the Department of Environment and Energy and the Minister for the Environment and Energy and/or Shenhua Watermark Pty Ltd or its representatives in the period from 1 January 2017 to 25 July 2018 concerning the Water Management Plan required by condition 26 of the Development Consent SSD-4975 for the Watermark Coal Mine in Breeza, NSW dated 28 January 2015.

Information documents relating to a $200,000 contribution for a western ground parrot project from the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots in Germany.

Information and documents include, but are not restricted to, permits, logs, correspondence (for example emails, letters, messages), meeting notes, briefing documents compiled from meetings, file notes, memorandums of understanding and diary entries.

All documents that are not already public available relating to the application of s24 (D) of the EPBC Act 1999 (the water trigger) to the Adani North Galilee Water Scheme over the last 12 months, including but not limited to:

1. All reports, briefing notes, and memos held by the Department of Environment and Energy
2. Correspondence between the Department of Environment and Energy and Adani or its consultants.