CLARENCE COLLIERY Community Consultative Committee Presentation 2 nd - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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CLARENCE COLLIERY

Community Consultative Committee Presentation 2nd July 2019

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Introduction

Were all conditions of the relevant approval(s) complied with? DA 504-00 YES Mining Lease 1353 Mining Lease 1354 Mining Lease 1583 Mining Lease 1721 Consolidated Coal Lease 705 Exploration Lease 5072 YES YES YES YES YES YES EPL726 NO Water Access License 36479 YES Relevant Approval Condition Condition summary Comment EPL726 L2.4 Water quality Exceedance April

Zinc (dissolved)

CCC Reporting Period: 21st March to 2nd July 2019

Table 1: Summary of Consents and Licences Table 2: Non-Compliances

Table 1 and Table 2 provides a summary of the primary Consents and Approvals and compliance performance for the CCC reporting period. The only non - compliance recorded for the period was a minor exceedance of water quality discharge values on the EPL in Zinc concentrations in April.

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OPERATIONS SUMMARY

Material Approved Limit and Source (Tonnes) Previous Year (2018 Actual Tonnes) Year to Date (2019 Tonnes) Forecast Total (2019 Tonnes) Waste Rock/ Overburden N/A ROM Coal 3,000,000 1,772,124 805,799 2,547,135 Coarse reject 250,000 87,159 28,061 95,154 Fine reject (Tailings) N/A Saleable product N/A 1,681,904 776,799 2,453,041

Table 3: Production Summary

Transport Approved Limit and Source (Tonnes) Previous Year (2018 Actual Tonnes) Year to Date (2019 Tonnes) Forecast Total (2019 Tonnes) Transport (rail) NA 1,614,743 707,511 2,227,512 Transport (road) 200,000 173,052 66,333 187,833

Table 4: Transportation Summary

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Figure 1: Production for 2019 Shown Monthly

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Environmental Performance – Noise and Air

Noise

• No complaints received
• No noise monitoring

undertaken during the period

Dust Gauge Annual Average (2019) (g/m2/month) Rolling 12 Monthly Average (g/m2/month) Limit (g/m2/month) DDG1 1.49 1.34 4 DDG2 0.82 1.15 4 DDG3 0.43 1.69 4

Air Quality

Table 4 – Dust Results 2019

• Monthly dust deposition results for 2019 (year to date) ranged from 0.43 to 1.49

g/m2/month, well below the annual average air quality criteria of 4 g/m2/month.

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Environmental Performance - Water

• March - July discharges -

were limited to treated underground water from LDP2

• A single exceedance in

dissolved Zinc of 0.019mg/L compared to a limit of 0.08mg/L

• Year to date we have only

recorded two exceedances demonstrating the significant WTP

• improvements. Studies

and trials are continuing.

Analyte Unit Limit

• Arsenic (Filtered)

mg/L

• Boron (Filtered)

mg/L

• Cadmium (Filtered)

mg/L

• Chloride

mg/L

• Chromium (Filtered)

mg/L

• Cobalt (Filtered)

mg/L

• Copper (Filtered)

mg/L

• Iron (Filtered)

mg/L

• Fluoride (Total)

mg/L

• Lead (Filtered)

mg/L

• Lithium (Filtered)

mg/L

• Manganese (Filtered)

mg/L

• Mercury (Filtered)

mg/L

• Nickel (Filtered)

mg/L

• Nitrogen (Total)

mg/L

• Oil & Grease

mg/L

• pH

pH Units

• Phosphorous (Total)

mg/L

• Selenium (Filtered)

mg/L

• Silver (Filtered)

mg/L

• Sulphur Sulphate (Total)

mg/L

• TSS

mg/L

• Zinc (Filtered)

mg/L

• Electrical Conductivity

µS/cm

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Approvals & Projects

Reject Emplacement Area III As detailed in previous meetings a number

• f approvals have been sought to allow

physical works on the site.

• The modification to DA consent has

been approved by Lithgow City Council,

• Amended MOP approved by the DPE,
• The Prohibition Notice (s240) has been

lifted.

• The Final Notice, a Clean Up Notice

actions (Section 93 of the POEO Act) is expected to be lifted in coming weeks. Physical works are now expected to commence during the Q3 2019.

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Approvals & Projects

Reject Emplacement Area 5 (REA 5)

• Clearing works are commencing in

the first week of July for the leachate dam, providing a detention basin for sediment capture prior to Stage 1 works.

• All soils will be scraped and kept for

rehabilitation trials and future rehabilitation of REA 3. The operation of REA 5 is now expected to commence in late 2019.

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Approvals & Projects

Rehabilitation Trials

• Preparation for the Rehabilitation trials are continuing with works proposed

early to Mid September.

• Trials will test different soil treatments, erosion control measures on REA 2

and REA 4 in preparation of final rehabilitation for REA 3

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Approvals & Projects

• MOP has been updated to include

drilling sites,

• Awaiting approval of ESF4

applications from the Resource Regulator, Drilling is now planned to commence in Q1 2020.

• The Resource Regulator undertook

a unannounced audit at Clarence

• n 18th June, as part of a statewide

compliance operation. The focus was rehabilitation of exploration

• sites. Feedback was extremely

positive on the rehabilitation works with no issues raised. 900 North Area Exploration Program

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Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

A number of Aboriginal cultural heritage inspections were undertaken during the period including pre extraction, post extraction and project related inspections including; 800 Area Post Extraction Inspection

• C-OS-4 (45-1-2699) and C-IF-2 (45-1-2704)

900 Drill Program Due Diligence Site Inspection

• 45-1-0004 - Not impacted by proposed drilling.

900 Area Pre-extraction

• 45-1-0003, 45-1-2691, 45-1-0183 and 45-1-

0130. Clarence to Springvale Pipeline project

• Entire corridor inspected Clarence to Sawyer’s

Swamp

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Complaints and Complaint Management

No complaints have been received at Clarence during 2019 and only one complaint was received during 2018 which was a related to a truck on Bells lines of Road, not directly attributable to Clarence Colliery’s

• perations.

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Development Consent or Licence Amendments

Title Purpose Approval Consent Authority Status Website link REA 3 operation and Rehabilitation To authorise the removal of reject, re-profile to final landform and rehabilitate REA 3

IRM.GE.76

LCC Granted N/A Increased Road Haulage - MOD 4 To increase truck movements to allow the transport of Coal to Mt Piper

DA 504-00 DPE

Public exhibition

• closed

https://www.planningportal .nsw.gov.au/major- projects/project/12341 Increased Manning levels - Mod 5 To increase manning levels from 300 to 400 people.

DA 504-00 DPE

SEE Submitted https://www.planningportal .nsw.gov.au/major- projects/project/14671 Transfer of Clarence Rejects to Charbon Transfer of Clarence Rejects to Charbon for rehabilitation purposes.

DA 504-00 DPE

Consultation with DPE commenced. N/A

Clarence Pipeline Project

Transfer of Treated water from Clarence water Treatment Plant to Cox’s river

New approval

DPE Studies commenced N/A

EPL Amendments

Administrative changes, 5 year review removal of EMP PRP, removal of LDP01

EPL 726

EPA Preliminary discussions with EPA N/A

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Clarence Pipeline Project

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• Awaiting on feedback from the Department on the approval approach
• Environmental assessments continuing including:

– Biodiversity (No impacts to EPBC listed species, most threatened flora species can be avoided during detailed design) – Heritage (no significant heritage sites identified during surveys) – Construction noise and traffic – Water

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Clarence Pipeline Project

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• Scoping Report will be submitted when approval pathway is confirmed

allowing SEARs to be issued

• EIS submission by the end of 2019 in accordance with PRP requirements
• Community and stakeholder engagement ongoing

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Coal Supply Modification (MOD 4)

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Due to difficult geological conditions at Springvale, impacting both coal quantity and quality, Mount Piper Power Station is experiencing a shortfall in coal supplies.

• To address this issue and provide future flexibility of coal supply two modifications

are being progressed:

• Modification to temporarily (2019 – December 2020) increase the volume of coal

that can be trucked from Clarence (100,000t to 200,000t)

• Modification to install and operate temporary rail unloading infrastructure at the

Lidsdale Coal Loading site to enable the site to receive coal via rail when Mount Piper Power Station is experiencing a shortage of coal

• Modification to Clarence recently completed public exhibition. A response to

submissions received during this period has been lodged with the Department.

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Employee Increase Modification (MOD 5)

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• A modification application has been submitted to the Department of Planning

and Environment to increase the number of full time equivalent personnel at Clarence Colliery from 300 to 400.

• Additional personnel required to improve productivity following the

commencement of additional rib bolting as part of underground operations.

• The SEE has identified that environmental impacts are minimal.
• If approved, will have positive socio-economic effects in the Lithgow local

government area and surrounding region.

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Proposed Activities for the next period

• Continued trials in Water Treatment Plant processes,
• REA V Construction commencing,
• Preparation for Rehabilitation and Decommissioning of Reject Emplacement

Area 3 (continuing),

• Continued studies for projects - Clarence Pipeline Project, Clarence to Charbon

rehabilitation material transfer.