❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on genetically modified organism release locations by the Department of Agriculture. The Minister provides details of applications and explains location specifics are released after licensing, with public consultation opportunities through the OGTR.
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(1) In how many locations within Western Australia has the Department of Agriculture, either alone or in partnership with commercial interests, applied to release genetically modified organisms into the environment during 2002? (2) Has the Department of Agriculture alerted the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator of the precise locations of each proposed release? (3) Can the minister provide maps at an appropriate scale or latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the proposed release sites? (4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(2) Has the Department of Agriculture alerted the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator of the precise locations of each proposed release? (3) Can the minister provide maps at an appropriate scale or latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the proposed release sites? (4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(3) Can the minister provide maps at an appropriate scale or latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the proposed release sites? (4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(2) Has the Department of Agriculture alerted the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator of the precise locations of each proposed release? (3) Can the minister provide maps at an appropriate scale or latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the proposed release sites? (4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(3) Can the minister provide maps at an appropriate scale or latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the proposed release sites? (4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(4) If no to (2), how can the public or interested organisations be expected to provide during the public comment period an evaluation of the locations if the proposed releases are unknown? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(1) The Department of Agriculture has made three applications to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. The first application relates to Ingard cotton to be planted on up to 500 hectares on various properties in the Kimberley. The second is for Bolgard II cotton field trials on up to 50 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land near Kununurra. A further 30 hectares may be planted on Shamrock Station, south of Broome. The third application is for a GM oilseed poppy field plot of about 0.01 hectares on Frank Wise Institute land. (2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(2) Site locations and contracts with growers are not finalised until such time as, and if, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator issues a licence and the conditions imposed are known. (3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(3) Such information will not be known until after a licence is issued. As in previous years, all the sites will be posted on the biotechnology web page as soon as the new sites are known. (4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
(4) Public consultation is an integral part of the assessment process conducted by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. This has been the case since the Gene Technology Bill was formulated and the Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator established. The applications and the intended locations of the trial sites are gazetted as well as being placed on the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s web site. There is ample opportunity for interested parties to make their submissions to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator during the stringent assessment process, which takes up to 170 working days.
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