Valeria Project

Project overview*

EIS status	EIS active
Description	Greenfield open-cut thermal and metallurgical coal mine with a yield of up to 16 million tonnes of coal per annum for approximately 37 years.
Proponent	Valeria Coal Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore Coal Pty Ltd.
Location/s	Approximately 27 km north-west of Emerald. Map
Local government/s	Central Highlands Regional Council
Investment	$1.5 billion
Key features	open-cut thermal and metallurgical coal mine mine infrastructure areas including a coal handling and preparation plant approximately 70-kilometre rail line, rail loop and train load out facility site access roads, water supply pipeline, communications, and powerline infrastructure workers accommodation village mine water management dams and storage facilities sewage treatment facilities office buildings and amenities
Construction start date	2024
Jobs	1400 (construction) 1250 (operational)

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

The Coordinator-General has prepared a draft terms of reference (TOR) for an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Valeria Project.

The draft TOR sets out the matters Valeria Coal Holdings Pty Ltd must address when preparing the EIS.

You are invited to comment on whether the draft TOR adequately covers all the matters the project proponent must address when preparing the EIS.

The Coordinator-General will consider your comments before finalising the TOR.

Comments close at 5 pm on Friday 21 October 2022.

Date	Activity
27 August 2022 to 21 October 2022	Draft terms of reference ( 675KB) for EIS public consultation.
June 2020 to August 2022	Preparation of the draft terms of reference has been pending proponent's project refinements ( 9.7MB).
14 January 2022	Commonwealth Minister for the Environment decided the project is a ‘controlled action’. The Valeria Project comprises of: mine site, on-site construction workers accommodation camp and mine access road communications infrastructure from the Gregory Highway to the mine site water supply pipeline infrastructure from the mine site to the Oaky Creek Coal Mine rail line from the mine site to the Aurizon Goonyella Coal Chain powerline infrastructure from the mine site to the Ergon powerline Note: Assessment of a request to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment to reconsider the controlled action decision under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for the Valeria project is underway.
12 June 2020	Gazettal ( 245 KB) of ‘Coordinated project’ declaration.
30 April 2020	Application, including initial advice statement ( 12.6 MB), submitted.