Central Queensland Ports Authority (CQPA) and Queensland Rail (QR) propose to construct a greenfield coal terminal at Wiggins Island to supplement the current coal export capacity of the Port of Gladstone. The terminal will have a nominal ultimate export capacity of 70 million tonnes per annum and will be constructed in stages. Depending on the material handling efficiencies achieved, the actual ultimate capacity of the terminal could increase by up to 20% above the nominal capacity (ie 84 mtpa).  

The project has been declared by the Coordinator-General as a “Significant Project” under Section 26 of the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971. 

In November 2006, the WICT Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was published and submitted to the Coordinator-General. The EIS consultation period occurred from 13 November 2006 to 8 January 2007. 

Following the EIS consultation period further engineering design options were developed. Recent studies, comments and stakeholder feedback resulted in changes to the Project. 

A Supplementary EIS has been prepared to address the issues raised during the EIS consultation period and through the subsequent Project changes. This is available for viewing below.

Due to the size of some of the documents we are currently unable to provide a copy available to be downloaded. The links below are to the Central Queensland Port Authority internet site which has the full documents.

Section 3

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

If you would like a CD of the documents, please contact the Wiggins Island Coal Terminal EIS Hotline on +61 7 4962 0660