significant environmental aspects

As with all activities the activities of ENERGEX have environmental aspects and associated impacts. Significance of environmental impacts due to ENERGEX’s activities varies from location to location depending on individual circumstances.

The potential significance of impacts can be broadly categorised as national, regional and local. Typically within these broad categorisations the following types of matters would exist:

national

• Infrastructure proposed in, traversing or adjacent to RAMSAR wetlands or World Heritage areas;
• Submarine cables in marine mammal habitat;
• Infrastructure works that affect Federally listed threatened species (flora and fauna), migratory species and ecological communities; and
• Interstate transportation of regulated waste.

regional

• Bushfire;
• Remnant ecosystems mapped by the State; and
• Infrastructure works that affect State listed threatened species (flora and fauna) and essential habitat

local

• Noise from operating and maintaining existing infrastructure and construction activities;
• Air quality from local generation; and
• Oil spillage

ENERGEX recognises the variability in issues and their significance from project to project and site to site, leading to the implementation of an environmental management system that, through its processes, is able to accommodate this variability.

In addition environmental impact assessments are published for major projects under for example Community Infrastructure Designation and impact assessable development applications under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 and Significant Projects under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 that address specific significant environmental aspects of individual projects.