Referral Decision Brief – Browse To North West Shelf Development - EPBC 2018/8319.

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A ministerial briefing document from February 2019 regarding the Burrup Hub development reveals departmental talking points for a meeting with Woodside Petroleum. The document addresses four EPBC Act referrals collectively forming the Burrup Hub vision on the Burrup Peninsula near Dampier, Western Australia. The briefing acknowledges the region's significant rock art heritage and marine environmental values, specifically identifying the Scott Reef Complex as important migration habitat for threatened humpback and pygmy blue whales and nesting areas for threatened marine turtles. Two offshore gas projects are discussed: the Browse Basin fields (Torosa, Brecknock, Calliance) off the Kimberley coast under departmental consideration, and the Scarborough Gas Field off the Pilbara coast for NOPSEMA review. Gas would be piped to two onshore LNG processing facilities. The briefing emphasizes balancing industry interests with environmental protection obligations but provides no quantified environmental impact data or indication of scientific disagreement with the referral assessment approach.