❓ I refer to the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) Cloudbreak mine operations, Ministerial Statement 899, and to the Vegetation Health Monitoring and Management Plan (VHMMP) referred to in that statement, an
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I refer to the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) Cloudbreak mine operations, Ministerial Statement 899, and to the Vegetation Health Monitoring and Management Plan (VHMMP) referred to in that statement, and I ask:
(a) can the Minister please table the VHMMP submitted by FMG prior to the commencement of its aquifer reinjection scheme at Cloudbreak;
(b) have vegetation health trigger levels been exceeded at any stage, as a result of the implementation of groundwater abstraction and disposal, since the commencement of the Cloudbreak operations:
(i) if yes to (b), can the Minister please table details as to the dates, locations and circumstances in which those trigger levels were exceeded; and
(c) have vegetation health trigger levels been amended at any stage since the commencement of mining at Cloudbreak:
(i) if yes to (c), on what dates; and
(ii) if yes to (c), what were the reasons for amendments to vegetation health trigger levels?
(a) can the Minister please table the VHMMP submitted by FMG prior to the commencement of its aquifer reinjection scheme at Cloudbreak;
(b) have vegetation health trigger levels been exceeded at any stage, as a result of the implementation of groundwater abstraction and disposal, since the commencement of the Cloudbreak operations:
(i) if yes to (b), can the Minister please table details as to the dates, locations and circumstances in which those trigger levels were exceeded; and
(c) have vegetation health trigger levels been amended at any stage since the commencement of mining at Cloudbreak:
(i) if yes to (c), on what dates; and
(ii) if yes to (c), what were the reasons for amendments to vegetation health trigger levels?
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Answered
17 March 2020
Responded by
Minister for Environment
Response time
7 days
(b) No (i) Not applicable (c) No (i)–(ii) Not applicable
(i) Not applicable (c) No (i)–(ii) Not applicable
(c) No (i)–(ii) Not applicable
(i)–(ii) Not applicable
(i) Not applicable (c) No (i)–(ii) Not applicable
(c) No (i)–(ii) Not applicable
(i)–(ii) Not applicable
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