Kwinana waste to energy plant

Submitted by Louise Sales on Thu, 29/09/2011 - 15:20

Extract from Hansard
[COUNCIL — Thursday, 29 September 2011]
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Hon Lynn MacLaren; Hon Norman Moore

KWINANA WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT

860. Hon LYNN MacLAREN to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for State Development:

I refer to the proposed waste-to-energy plants, which the Minister for State Development has publicly supported.

(1) How do the proponents of the proposed Kwinana waste-to-energy plant intend to mitigate dangerous
dioxin and less-than-10-parts-per- million particle emissions from each of the incinerators they intend to
build?

(2) What monitoring regime will the Department of the Environment and Conservation put on the operators
of the Kwinana waste-to-energy plant to ensure the community are not exposed to dangerous dioxin and
less-than-10-parts-per-million particle emissions?

(3) What safeguards will be put in place to ensure any products from the fly-ash produced by the Martin
grate incinerator are free from contamination?

Hon NORMAN MOORE replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question.

(1)–(3) In respect to any such proposal, the Environmental Protection Authority would determine the level of
assessment for the project. The proponent would need to demonstrate to the EPA that the project met
the state’s stringent environmental standards. Approval of the project may require the proponent to
fulfil certain conditions, such as enviromenta1 monitoring, to ensure compliance.