Moranbah Ammonium Nitrate

Project overview*

EIS status: EIS complete

Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific Limited has proposed the construction of an ammonium nitrate plant about 4.5 kilometres north-west of Moranbah in the northern Bowen Basin. The Moranbah plant will produce ammonia gas and nitric acid as inputs to the plant outputs of ammonium nitrate emulsion (viscous liquid) and prill (solid) to service the rapidly expanding demand for explosives from mining throughout Queensland and New South Wales. The Moranbah facility will have a production capacity of approximately 330 000 tonnes annually. The project will use locally sourced coal seam gas.

On 31 March 2006, the Coordinator-General declared the project a Significant Project for which an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is required.

Environmental Impact Statement process

The EIS prepared by Dyno Nobel was released for public comment on 11 October 2006 until 10 November 2006.

A supplementary report was issued by Dyno Nobel in January 2007 responding to the issues raised in submissions on the EIS.

After evaluating the EIS, supplementary report and other material, the Coordinator-General prepared the Coordinator-General's Report dated 8 May 2007. The report concluded that the project may proceed, subject to specific conditions to manage potential adverse environmental impacts, as set down in the report. A full copy of the report and the conditions may be viewed below.

Resources

Environmental Impact Statement

  1. Executive Summary (PDF, 170 KB)
  2. Introduction (PDF, 2.7 MB)
  3. Project Need and Alternatives (PDF, 29 KB)
  4. Project Description
    1. Location - Part 1 (PDF, 2.65 KB)
    2. Location - Part 2 (PDF, 1.86 MB)
    3. Location - Part 3 (PDF, 1.58 MB)

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.