Our Environment

Looking after our world and everything in it

The Murchison region of Western Australia’s Mid West is rich in biodiversity. While Murchison Green Hydrogen acknowledges the urgency and importance of changing our energy production and consumption methods to achieve global decarbonisation we believe this needs to be achieved with the utmost consideration for the local natural environment. Our strategy for minimising our environmental footprint is:

Avoid – We’re taking extensive measures to avoid unnecessary environmental impact.
Mitigate – We’re funding research and investing methods to reduce anticipated impact on fauna and flora.
Offset – Through our programs and operations, we’ll be offsetting any impact to the environment in line with environmental guidelines.

How we are monitoring environmental impact

Murchison Green Hydrogen operates to the highest international Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) standards. This outlines the way we design, plan, build and operate our renewable energy infrastructure to help move the world towards a net zero carbon future. In addition to this unshakeable commitment, we use the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to ensure our activities comply with the strictest of governance requirements.

Marine Environmental Studies

Our marine environmental studies will enable us to best preserve the marine life and area used by the project.

Benthic communities and habitats
Local wave climate
Coastal processes
Water quality monitoring
Dredging Sediment Quality
Underwater noise
Marine construction impacts modelling
Marine operational impacts modelling
Water quality impacts modelling
Marine environmental quality impact assessment

Terrestrial Environmental Studies

These terrestrial environmental studies will outline how we can best utilise the land responsibly and sustainably.

Flora and vegetation
Terrestrial fauna
Inland water
Air quality
Greenhouse gas emissions
Social surrounds
Landforms

Heritage Studies

Heritage studies assist us in the design and development of the Murchison Green Hydrogen plan so that we can show respect accordingly to the heritage and cultural sites in the region.

Aboriginal heritage
European heritage (including shipwrecks)

Environmental approvals process

Murchison Green Hydrogen requested and has been granted a Public Environmental Review (PER) level assessment by the Environment Protection Authority. This is the highest level of environmental assessment and will offer local community the opportunity to provide feedback and input over a period of four weeks. Prior to submitting our environment approvals, the following high-level steps will be undertaken:

Baseline surveys
Targeted surveys
Constraints mapping
Modelling and analysis of survey data
Mitigation and control measures
Environmental impact determinations
Offsets

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Social Impact

While we are dedicated to playing our part in urgently reducing global carbon emissions, we maintain a focus on managing and avoiding any potential social impacts of our project front and centre.

Environmental Impact

With our green energy infrastructure producing an alternative to fossil fuels, we can enhance positive environmental impact and help decarbonise the planet.

Economic Impact

Murchison Green Hydrogen will create thousands of construction jobs, hundreds of permanent positions and inject billions of dollars into the region for greatest economic impact.

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