NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED UNDER THE
HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989
Pursuant to Section 33 of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989, notice is given that an application has been received from Halliburton Australia Pty Ltd, Level 10, 12-14 The Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia 6000. The application relates to the export of up to 2000 kilograms of lithium metal batteries contained in equipment to Toxco Waste Management Ltd (Toxco), 9384 Highway 22A, Trail, British Columbia V1R 4W6 in Canada for recovery operations R4, namely the “Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds”. In this case, the ‘equipment’ consists of protective steel housings slightly longer than the batteries themselves.
The waste will leave Australia by ship from Port Botany. The waste may then transit the ports of Auckland, Napier, Port Chalmers and Tauranga in New Zealand; and Honolulu,
Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle in the United States of America (USA). The waste will then be transported by road and rail from the USA to the Toxco facility located at Trail in British Columbia.
The transboundary movement would take place in six (6) shipments during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
Please note that Halliburton have also applied for a permit to export waste lithium metal batteries, not contained in equipment, to Canada, specifying the same carriers, route and recycler.
Jane O’Sullivan
Delegate to the Minister
Acting Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
15 January 2013