Environmental Protection (Dardanup Pine Log Sawmill Noise Emissions) Approval 2025
The Minister for Environment has granted a continuing approval to Wespine to allow the level of noise emitted from the Dardanup Sawmill to exceed the standard prescribed under Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997. The Minister’s decision is based on recommendations made by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. This approval was published in the WA Government Gazette on 5 February 2025 and can be accessed via https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/gazettes.html.
Any person who disagrees with the approval, or any conditions or restrictions imposed upon the approval may, within 21 days of publication of the approval, lodge with the Minister for Environment an appeal in writing setting out the ground of that appeal. An appeal should be sent, with an accompanying fee of $50.00, to Office of the Appeals Convenor for the Environmental Protection Act (1986), Level 18, The Mill Green Complex, 197 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000. Alternatively the appeal can be lodged online via https://appeals-system.appealsconvenor.wa.gov.au/createappeal/