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Eastern Star gets tree rehab extension at Wilga Park
Posted February 26, 2011 14:54:00

The state government has given Eastern Star Gas more time to find land on which to plant trees to compensate for habitat destroyed in the building of a 32-kilometre pipeline near Narrabri, in north-west New South Wales.

The pipeline is part of an expansion at the company's methane-fired coal seam gas Wilga Park Power Station.
ESG now has until August to identify up to 45 hectares for a so-called "compensatory habitat package", listed as one of the project's conditions of approval in 2008.

General Manager of Stakeholder Relations, Peter Fox, says the company is optimistic that nearby landholders will want to sell land for the re-vegetation.
"With the number of options that we've got available to us we'd fully expect to be able to find landholders that are happy to agree to have this happen," he said.
"Once we've identified sites that actually work from a practical point of view it would then be natural, as the next step, to talk to those landholders."
Mr Fox says only about half the habitat along the pipeline route was disturbed.

"The area we've affected is about 15 hectares and we'll be looking to off-set on a like-for-like basis," he said.
"But we're looking to acquire and conserve about 45 hectares of land that's got a similar ecological value as the land we've affected."
Vegetation mapping, undertaken by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, was used to identify potential off-set sites.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/26/3149749.htm?site=newengland§ion=news&date=(none)

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