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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79658
5 pages
PDF
Internal DCCEEW email exchanges from June 2023 discuss how AEMO would treat the 82% renewable energy target in its 2023 Inputs, Assumptions and Scenarios Report (IASR) for electricity planning. AEMO proposed not explicitly imposing an 82% target in the National Electricity…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79882
1 page
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains employment statistics for DCCEEW across four reporting periods (September 2022 to December 2024), showing total staff grew from 3,383 to 5,476 employees. The breakdown reveals Australian-born citizens comprised the majority workforce, increasing from…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79838
6 pages
PDF
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water provided ministerial advice on the EPBC Amendment (Reconsiderations) Bill 2025, recommending the Minister note departmental advice regarding application of the amendment bill to two active reconsideration…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79656
53 pages
PDF
This disclosure concerns a Request for Quote issued by DCCEEW on 22 August 2023 for multicultural communications services related to the Murray-Darling Basin healthy rivers and communities campaign. The document is a template from the Commonwealth Contracting Suite's Government…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79868
73 pages
PDF
The Department approved a variation to conditions for Russell Vale Colliery's revised underground expansion project (EPBC 2020/8702) near Wollongong, NSW, allowing adjusted water quality discharge limits for antimony and vanadium into Bellambi Gully. The approval holder…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79714
2 pages
PDF
The correspondence concerns the Browse Carbon Capture and Storage Project (EPBC 2024/10028), a Woodside-referred action under the EPBC Act. The documents are internal departmental emails addressing referral decision-making timelines. DCCEEW sought agreement from Woodside on 28…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79437
96 pages
PDF
A NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure official submitted the 2023 Annual Monitoring Report for the ex-HMAS Adelaide artificial reef to DCCEEW's Sea Dumping Section in January 2024. The vessel was placed offshore of Avoca Beach under sea dumping permit…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79782
247 pages
PDF
A decision brief regarding EPBC referral 2019/8595 for the South Canberra Memorial Park development in Symonston, ACT by Invocare Australia Pty Limited. The department recommended confirming the original referral decision, which determined that none of the EPBC Act's controlling…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79793
5 pages
PDF
DCCEEW provided section 163 advice to the Department of Infrastructure on Western Sydney International Airport's airspace and flight path design at Badgery's Creek, NSW following an EPBC Act referral in December 2021. The advice, completed on 20 December 2024, addresses the…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79741
13 pages
PDF
Three environmental organisations (The Australia Institute, Bob Brown Foundation, and Australian Marine Conservation Society/Humane Society International Australia) submitted reconsideration requests in mid-2023 challenging a 2012 EPBC Act decision that classified salmon farming…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79666
394 pages
PDF
DCCEEW assessed an application to add the pig-nosed turtle (*Carettochelys insculpta*) to Australia's Live Import List under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The department prepared an environmental impact assessment in July 2023 evaluating…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79471
20 pages
PDF
The Sturt Plateau Pipeline referral (EPBC 2024/10027) concerns a gas pipeline proposed by APA SPP Pty Ltd to support Tamboran Resources' unconventional gas exploration at the Shenandoah South project in the Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory. The department's decision brief…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79296
65 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains documents regarding Claravale Farm and Station's obligations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, released by DCCEEW with extensive redactions under FOI exemptions covering legal professional privilege (s. 47F(1))…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79572
3 pages
PDF
The disclosed documents comprise draft and final inspection reports for Claravale Station and Claravale Farm in Katherine, prepared by DCCEEW between April and July 2023. The documents include site inspection reports with transect maps and address departmental comments on…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79698
3 pages
PDF
The Narrabri Lateral Pipeline (EPBC 2024/10050) was referred to DCCEEW on 4 December 2024 for assessment under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The proposed action involves vegetation clearing for a gas pipeline approximately 20 km southwest…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79680
3 pages
PDF
These are meeting minutes from DCCEEW's Nature Positive Regulation Division documenting five Project Assessment Plan meetings (28 November 2024 to March 2025) regarding the Burrup Hub projects, primarily the North West Shelf (NWS) Project Extension (EPBC 2018/8335). Attendees…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
IR 79246
34 pages
PDF
The disclosure documents correspondence and meeting materials related to the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC), which advises on emissions reduction projects under Australia's carbon offset scheme. The materials include email exchanges from December 2024 between…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79264
102 pages
PDF
This FOI release concerning the Halls Island, Lake Malbena EPBC referral (2018/8177) contains only administrative documents with no substantive environmental assessment material. Document 1 is a July 2024 email from Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry IT staff…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79377
61 pages
PDF
Victoria's Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action submitted the Kangaroo Harvest Management Plan 2024-2028 to the Commonwealth for approval as a Wildlife Trade Management Plan under the EPBC Act. The Commonwealth's DCCEEW conducted public consultation, receiving…
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DCC
DCCEEW
Released
79184
96 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure concerns vegetation clearing at Lot 1, Plan 122135, King Island, Tasmania (case reference CAS3371). The released documents appear to be substantially redacted under multiple exemption provisions (ss. 37, 47E, 47F, and 22 of the FOI Act), which typically…