The Marmadua Energy Park proposal has been submitted to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water for consideration under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

Information about this proposed action has been published on the Department’s website for public consultation. The period of consultation will extend for 10 business days.

At the end of the consultation period, the information included in the referral, along with any comments received, will be used to help decide whether this proposed action:

• is a controlled action (one that is likely to have a significant impact on matters protected under the EPBC Act and therefore needs to be assessed and approved by the Minister for the Environment and Energy before it can proceed), or
• is not a controlled action and may be undertaken but only as described in the referral, or
• does not require approval under the EPBC Act.

Alternatively, it may be decided based on the information in the referral that the action is clearly unacceptable (the referred action would have unacceptable impacts on matters protected under the EPBC Act and cannot proceed).