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 Schlumberger Australia
Pty Ltd, Level 5, 256 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000. The application relates to the export of up to 2000 kilograms of waste lithium metal batteries contained in equipment from Australia 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”.
The waste will exit Australia via Port Botany by ship. 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 proceed 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.
Mr Andrew McNee
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
26 November 2012