❓ A parliamentary question probes the feasibility study of a desalination plant and pipeline project, focusing on energy sources, environmental assessment, and supplementary information provided by United Utilities. The government's response indicates a reliance on non-renewable energy assumptions and a deferred consideration of environmental impact.
AnsweredQoN 1565Legislative Council
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I refer to the feasibility study into piping desalinated seawater from Esperance to Kalgoorlie-Boulder. (1) Will this feasibility study be based on the desalination plant’s use of renewable energy, or non-renewable energy only? (2) To what level of environmental assessment will the proposed pipeline be subject? (3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(1) Will this feasibility study be based on the desalination plant’s use of renewable energy, or non-renewable energy only? (2) To what level of environmental assessment will the proposed pipeline be subject? (3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(2) To what level of environmental assessment will the proposed pipeline be subject? (3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(1) Will this feasibility study be based on the desalination plant’s use of renewable energy, or non-renewable energy only? (2) To what level of environmental assessment will the proposed pipeline be subject? (3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(2) To what level of environmental assessment will the proposed pipeline be subject? (3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(3) The company undertaking this study, United Utilities, has asked for further time to provide supplementary information. Could the minister outline what this supplementary information would specifically relate to in the study? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
I provide this answer on behalf of the Minister for Government Enterprises. (1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(1) The feasibility study was based on infrastructure costs that assumed the use of a non-renewable energy source. (2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(2) As the Government has yet to make a decision on proceeding to further evaluation of the proposal, no consideration of the level of environmental assessment has yet been made. (3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
(3) United Utilities presented information relating to the pricing structures considered in the feasibility study. In addition, it re-emphasised certain elements of the study which it felt were important in the Government’s deliberation of this project.
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