In March 2019,the authority released guidelines that would compel companies expanding or building new projects with emissions higher than 100,000 tonnes a year to fully offset them.
It was forced back to the drawing board after big LNG players including Woodside and Chevron blasted the guidelines,arguing they would put future projects worth billions of dollars at risk.
The authority has been consulting with conservation groups and industry since June 2019 and received nearly 7000 submissions.
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EPA chair Tom Hatton said the new guidelines would provide clarity.
“This guidance will help align the management of greenhouse gases in Western Australia with both the science that says we need to get to net-zero by 2050 to avoid the most serious of consequences,and the international and state policy that has endorsed this conclusion,” he said.
“It is also intended that the guidance provides industry and community with certainty and a clear framework for the management of greenhouse gas emissions from future proposals.”