Published on Thursday, 28 November 2024 …

Published on Thursday, 28 November 2024 at 1:50:46 PM

PROPOSED TEMPORARY WORKFORCE ACCOMMODATION 

LOT 100 DARTMOOR-LAKE NERRAMYNE ROAD, DARTMOOR 

The Shire of Chapman Valley advises it has received an application for temporary workforce accommodation from Warrego Energy in association with their Exploration Drilling Program within Petroleum Licence EP512 that is managed separately under the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 by the State Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. 

The application is seeking to establish temporary workforce accommodation 50km north-east of the Yuna townsite upon Lot 100 Dartmoor-Lake Nerramyne Road, Dartmoor in association with Warrego’s exploratory drilling operations.  

The development would consist of a main accommodation camp with 24 transportable accommodation buildings each containing with 2 x 1 bedroom/1 bathroom accommodation. The main camp would also have a further 8 transportable buildings serving to house laundry, kitchen, freezer, dining, office, storeroom, recreation, gym and generator functions.  

This main camp would be located approximately 200m north of a drill camp consisting of 8 transportable buildings providing accommodation for 6 persons, as well as laboratory, office and training functions at the actual drill site. 

Both camps would be serviced by a mobile aerobic wastewater treatment system that will require separate application to be made to the Shire and operated in accordance with State Department of Health requirements. 

The camp footprint would be approximately 1ha within a larger 3.65ha project area that has been previously cleared for farming purposes. 

The site preparation would commence in early 2025 and the camps are proposed to be onsite and operational in March-April 2025 and removed after this time once the well test is completed and plugging and decommissioning would occur. 

The Shire of Chapman Valley Local Planning Scheme lists ‘Workforce Accommodation’ as a land use in the ‘Rural’ zone that must be advertised for comment prior to determination, and the Shire is inviting comment upon this application.  

A copy of the application along with a submission form should you wish to make comment can be accessed at the below links. 

Submissions must be received prior to 4:00pm Friday 20 December 2024 and can be:  

The Shire advises that the Warrego Energy drill operations form part of a separate approval process administered by the State Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and that this calling for comment relates to the temporary workforce accommodation aspect only.  

Should further information be required please contact the Shire office on 9920 5011. 

link to Application PDF here 

link to Submission Form PDF here 

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