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Scheme participants and management

Scheme participants

Licence holders and credit allocations at commencement of the Regulation

Credit holder
Licence number (if applicable) 
Premises name (if applicable) 
No. of credits
Bengalla Mining Company Pty Ltd   6538 Bengalla Mine   35
Bulga Coal Management Pty Ltd   563 Saxonvale Colliery Holding  40
Camberwell Coal Pty Ltd  3390 Camberwell Coal Mine Colliery Holding  15
Coal and Allied Industries Ltd  Operations  640 Hunter Valley 120
Coal and Allied Industries Ltd  Holding  1976 Mt Thorley Colliery 0
Cumnock No 1 Colliery Pty Ltd   37 Cumnock No 1 Colliery  15
Dartbrook Coal Pty Ltd  Mine  4885 Dartbrook Coal 15
Drayton Coal Pty Ltd   1323 Drayton Coal Mine Colliery Holding  25
Hunter Valley Coal Corporation Pty Ltd   4460 Mt Owen Coal Mine  15
Lemington Coal Mines Ltd   1497 Lemington Coal Mine Colliery Holding  40
Liddell Coal Operations Pty Ltd   2094 Liddell Colliery Holding  55
Macquarie Generation   779 Bayswater Power Station  230
Mt Arthur Coal Company Ltd   113 Bayswater Colliery  25
Muswellbrook Coal Company Ltd   656 Muswellbrook No 2 Open Cut Coal Mine  10
Nardell Coal Corporation Pty Ltd   10337 Nardell Coal Corporation Pty Ltd  30
Ravensworth Operations Pty Ltd   10860 Ravensworth East Mine  0
Ravensworth Operations Pty Ltd   2652 Ravensworth Operations Narama Mine  100
Redbank Project Pty Ltd   11262 Redbank Power Station  35
Rix's Creek Pty Ltd   3391 Rix's Creek Colliery  25
United Collieries Pty Ltd   3141 United Colliery  10
Wambo Mining Corporation Pty Ltd  529  Wambo Mining Corporation   35
Warkworth Mining Ltd   1376 Warkworth Colliery Holding  40
New South Wales Environment Protection Authority   NA NA  85
Total credits   1,000

  • Initial credit holders are shown in the table, however, credit holders may
    vary from time to time. Details of current holders can be found on the EPA website
    (www.epa.nsw.gov.au/hrsts/).
  • Although some of the participants referred to above were not initially issued with credits, they will be able to participate in trading.
  • Some credits were initially kept by the EPA as a transitional mechanism. All residual credits were allocated during 2003, so all 1000 credits are held by participants.

Administrative roles

River monitoring, modelling and the river register are provided by the Services Coordinator at the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (formerly Department of Land and Water Conservation).

Licensing and regulation, online credit register and exchange facility are provided
by EPA.

The Operations Committee considers issues in relation to the day-to-day operation
of the scheme.

Scheme management

The Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme Operations Committee consists of:

  • a member nominated by the Hunter River Catchment Management Trust
  • four members to represent the interests of licence holders
  • a member to represent the interests of irrigators
  • a member to represent environmental interests
  • a member from an organisation concerned in the management of a river in the catchment
  • a member from the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources.

The cost of administering the scheme is shared equally between credit holders and discharge licence holders. (In the future credits may be held by persons other than licensees).

 

 

Page last updated: 21 February 2008