East Arm Resources Pty Ltd, East Arm Road Quarry Expansion, Hillwood
The proposal is to expand and intensify the existing Level 2 quarry at the site, increasing the footprint, and extracting and processing at a greater rate per annum, increasing from 130,000m³ to 2,500,000m³ (this volume equates to approximately 4,000,000 tonnes) per annum.
Case for Assessment open for public comment until: 1/5/2025
Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd, Renison Mine, Rentails Project
Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd (BMTJV) is proposing to construct and operate a new tailings retreatment plant, tailings storage facility, and associated infrastructure at the existing Renison Mine site, located off the Murchison Highway at Renison Bell. The proposal involves the reclaiming and processing of approximately 30 million tonnes of tailings material from existing tailing storage facilities at the site at a rate of approximately 2.5 million tonnes per year.
The new tailings storage facility, E Dam, has a proposed storage capacity of 37.9 million tonnes. The total disturbance footprint for the proposal is approximately 8.35 km2 and the total area of land to be cleared and or flooded for E Dam is 4.05 km2.
Draft guidelines open for public comment until: 31/3/2025
ABx4 Pty Ltd, DL 130 Bauxite Project, Reedy Marsh
The proposal is to extract up to 50,000 cubic meters of material per year via excavation, to produce mostly bauxite products. The proposal includes screening of most material and crushing of a small portion of the extracted material (up to 1,000 cubic meters per year).
Assessment Completed 7/3/2025
Bullock Civil Contracting Pty Ltd, Bullock Recycling Services Relocation, Bridgewater
Bullock Civil Contracting Pty Ltd is proposing the relocation of the existing recycling and waste recovery operations from 221 Glenstone Road to a new site at 175 Cobbs Hill Road, Bridgewater (adjoining the 221 Glenstone Road site). The existing recycling and waste recovery operation is approved to receive 100,000 tonnes per year of locally sources construction soil and process it for resale. Contaminated material is not accepted. The activity includes separating course rocks and slabs of concrete and bitumen; screen remaining loose material to separate loam and clay from coarse waste; crushing coarse fractions (potentially up to 100,000 tonnes per year of waste concrete); stockpiling all materials into segregated piles; carting out reusable materials by truck; reuse of materials as backfill into trenches and other civil excavations; and disposal of any remaining wastes. The proposal does not seek to alter or intensify the existing approved use and production volumes of the recycling operation.
Assessment Commenced: 15/1/2025
Marinus Link Pty Ltd, Marinus Link Heybridge Converter Station, Heybridge
Marinus Link Pty Ltd is proposing the construction and operation of a power cable and associated infrastructure known as Marinus Link, from Heybridge in Northern Tasmania, across Bass Strait to Victoria. The Converter Station component of the Marinus Link project includes construction and operation of a large converter station complex at Heybridge, on an existing cleared site adjacent to the Bass Highway, near Minna Road, Heybridge.
Case for Assessment closed for public comment: 18/2/2025
Woolnorth Wind Farm Holding Pty Ltd, Woolnorth Wind Farm, Repowering of Studland Bay and Bluff Point
The proposal involves repowering the existing Woolnorth Wind Farm at Bluff Point and Studland Bay by decommissioning and replacing wind turbine generators (WTGs) and upgrading ancillary components such as substations, access tracks and laydown areas. The proposal will also involve an upgrade and/or replacement of the transmission line between the Woolnorth Wind Farm and the Smithton substation.
Draft guidelines closed for public comment: 2/12/2024
Marinus Link Pty Ltd, Marinus Link Heybridge Shore Crossing, Heybridge and Coastal Waters
Marinus Link Pty Ltd is proposing the construction and operation of a power cable and associated infrastructure, known as Marinus Link, from Heybridge in Northern Tasmania, across Bass Strait to Victoria. The Shore Crossing component of the Marinus Link project includes horizontal directional drilling and laying of the cable from the Converter Station site at Heybridge, under the shoreline and out across Bass Strait.
Case for Assessment closed for public comment: 18/2/2025
Sanbar Pty Ltd, Pioneer Sand Quarry Intensification, South Mount Cameron
Sanbar Pty Ltd is proposing to intensify operations at the Pioneer Sand Quarry, located approximately 14.5 kilometres southwest of Gladstone. The proposal involves an extraction increase from 5,000 cubic metres to 50,000 cubic metres and processing increase from 1,000 cubic metres to 50,000 cubic metres of sand tailings per year. Currently extracting and processing as a level 1 activity.
Case for Assessment closed for public comment: 4/2/2025
Permanent Non-Acid Forming Aggregate Storage Facility, Renison Bell
Bluestone Mines Joint Venture Pty Ltd proposes to construct a non-acid forming aggregate storage facility to receive Non-Acid Forming (NAF) waste rock for permanent storage above ground. The waste contains some sulphide bearing minerals and therefore there is the potential for leaching of salts and metals under neutral pH conditions.
Walters Contracting Pty Ltd, Porters Bridge Quarry Intensification, 190 Porters Bridge Road, Exton
The proposal involves intensification and expansion of the existing Porters Bridge Road Quarry located at 190 Porters Bridge Road, Exton. The Quarry currently employs rip and push and drilling and blasting techniques to extract aggregate. The proposal is to increase processing and extraction limits from 32 000 to 200 000 cubic metres per annum. The active quarry zone would expand to approximately 10.5 hectares, with an additional expansion of the existing stockpiling and loading area to 3.1 hectares. Auxiliary infrastructure will also be required and includes stormwater infrastructure, office and toilet, workshop, diesel fuel tank, weighbridge and diesel-powered generator.
Assessment Commenced: 15/7/2024
Tasmanian Quality Meats Pty Ltd, TQM Abattoir Intensification, Cressy
Tasmanian Quality Meats (TQM) Pty Ltd is seeking to increase the rate of production at its abattoir at 5 Burlington Road, Cressy to 33,300 tonnes meat product per year.
The existing EPN 8932/2 has a production limit of 8,800 tonnes per annum (tpa) of meat product, though the proponent has temporary approval under Environment Protection Notice No 11818/ to increase production to 13,500 tpa until 30 June 2025.
Assessment Commenced: 5/11/2024
Beams Bros Pty Ltd, Cressy Dolomite Quarry Expansion, Cressy
Beams Bros Pty Ltd is seeking approval for an increase in production at its dolomite quarry at Saundridge Road, Blackwood Creek, Cressy to 45,000 tonnes product per year, the inclusion of materials handling and processing as part of the activity and the expansion of the quarrying footprint.
The Existing EPN 7773/1 has a production limit of 45,000 cubic metres per annum (m3/a) based on a 2014 amendment of the permit (Notice of Registration No. 1514) increasing the limt from 10,000 to 45,000 m3/a and adding materials handling to the permitted activity. However, examination of the permitting history for the activity has uncovered that planning amendment was invalid and that a new permit should have been sought.
Assessment Commenced: 20/11/2024
ReProcess Tas Pty Ltd, Risdon Vale Waste Depot, 20 and 42 Scotts Road, Risdon Vale
ReProcess Tas Pty Ltd, located at 20 and 42 Scotts Road, Risdon Vale, proposal is for the development of an existing, but unapproved waste depot, to receive a range of construction and demolition materials and soils (regularly from its demolition activities undertaken by Spectran Civil) but also from various contractors, local councils, government, and business bodies in the region. These materials (concrete, sand, soils, timber etc.) undergo a range of treatments to process them into materials suitable for reuse within the construction and civil sectors.
Assessment Commenced: 18/6/2024
Unity Mining Pty Ltd, Newton Pond Leach Residual Storage Facility Expansion, Howards Road
Unity Mining Pty Ltd is proposing to extend the tailings storage facility at the Henty Gold Mine near Queenstown. The proposal involves adding an extension cell to the existing tailings storage facility and also allows for two future lifts to the height of the embankment to accommodate the life of mine forecast of 2031 (or beyond).
Assessment Commenced: 25/10/2024
Southern Waste Solutions, Lutana Waste Transfer Station, Lutana Resource Recovery Works
Southern Waste Solutions is proposing to change the use of the Lutana Waste Transfer Station to allow for resource recovery works on up to 90,000 tonnes of waste per year on the existing site. The recovery works would operate in parallel with the existing waste transfer station. Waste will be separated and processed into product streams for reuse where possible.
Assessment Commenced: 15/11/2024
Southern Midlands Council, Stonehenge Quarry Increase in Production, Tunnack
Southern Midlands Council is proposing to intensify operations at the Stonehenge Quarry, located off Stonehenge and Swanston Roads, approximately 15 kilometres northeast of Tunnack. The proposal involves a production increase from 5,000 cubic metres (m³) to 20,000 m³ of weathered dolerite per year and includes the crushing and screening of material.
Stonehenge Quarry is a current level 1 quarry (mining lease: 1977 P/M), supplying materials to council and private projects throughout the municipality, with a current maximum annual extraction limit of 5,000 m³ and processing limit of 1,000 m³.
Assessment Commenced: 7/11/2024