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RELIANCE STATEMENT
The purpose of this report and the associated services is to undertake an environmental impact assessment of
the proposed Arrow Bowen Pipeline Project (the project) in accordance with the scope of services set out in the
contract between Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd (SKM) and Arrow Bowen Pipeline Pty Ltd (Arrow). That scope of
services, as described in this report, was developed with the Client.
In preparing this report, the following documents have been relied upon, and presumed accurate, any
information (or confirmation of the absence thereof) provided. These include, but are not limited to;
 Environmental Assessment Report (Flora) for the Proposed Arrow Bowen Pipeline (AECOM, 2011).
 Initial Safety Management Study (GHD, 2011).
 Arrow Bowen Pipeline Proposed Pipeline Alignment Travelogue (Coffey, 2011).
 ABP Traffic Impact Assessment (GHD, 2011).
 Water Crossing Information for the Arrow Bowen Gas Pipeline (AECOM, 2011).
 ABP Flood Impact Assessment (GHD, 2011).
 Arrow Energy Major Pipelines Water Availability Study (GHD, 2011).
 Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment Arrow Bowen Pipeline Environmental Impact Statement CQCHM,
2011).
Except as otherwise stated in the report, no attempt has been undertaken to verify the accuracy or
completeness of any such information. If the information is subsequently determined to be false, inaccurate or
incomplete then it is possible that our observations and conclusions as expressed in this report may change.
The data in this report is from data available in the public domain at the time or times outlined in this report. The
passage of time, manifestation of latent conditions or impacts of future events may require further examination of
the project and subsequent data analysis, and re-evaluation of the data, findings, observations and conclusions
expressed in this report. The report has been prepared in accordance with the usual care and thoroughness of
the consulting profession, for the sole purpose described above and by reference to applicable standards,
guidelines, procedures and practices at the date of issue of this report. For the reasons outlined above,
however, no other warranty or guarantee, whether expressed or implied, is made as to the data, observations
and findings expressed in this report, to the extent permitted by law.
This report should be read in full and no excerpts are to be taken as representative of the findings. No
responsibility is accepted by Arrow or SKM for use of any part of this report in any other context.
This report has been prepared on behalf of, and for the exclusive use of Arrow, and is subject to, and issued in
accordance with, the provisions of the agreement between SKM and Arrow. SKM accepts no liability or
responsibility whatsoever for, or in respect of, any use of, or reliance upon, this report by any third party.

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Version Purpose of Orig Review Review QA Release Issue Date
Document Date Review Approval
Rev 0 Draft – DERM review DW/MC GLM 29.11.2011 CB 02.12.2011 02.12.2011
Rev 1 For public comment GLM MC 24.02.2012 DT 01.03.2012 01.03.2012

Disclaimer This document is and shall remain the property of Arrow Bowen Pipeline Pty Ltd.
Unauthorised copying or use of this document in any form whatsoever is prohibited.
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
4WD 4-wheel drive
AADT Average Annual Daily Traffic
AASS Actual acid sulfate soils
AB Arrow Bowen (mainline)
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACH Act Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003
AGL Australian Gas Light Company
AHC Act Australian Heritage Council Act 2003
AHD Australian Height Datum
ANZECC Australian and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council
ANZIC Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
APIA Australian Pipeline Industry Association
APLNG Australia Pacific LNG
ARI Average recurrence interval
Arrow Arrow Bowen Pipeline Pty Ltd
Arrow Energy Arrow Energy Pty Ltd
AS Australian Standard
ASP Arrow Surat Pipeline, formerly known as Surat Gas Pipeline (SGP)
ASS Acid sulfate soils
ATSIHP Act Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
BG British Gas
BOM Bureau of Meteorology
BOP Balance of Payments
BPA Biodiversity Planning Assessment
BRS Bureau of Rural Sciences
CEMP Construction Environmental Management Plan
CHIMS Cultural Heritage Information Management System
CHMP Cultural Heritage Management Plan
CHMS Cultural Heritage Management Strategy
CLR Contaminated Land Register
CO -e Carbon dioxide equivalent
2
CO Carbon monoxide
Coastal Act Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995
CQCHM Central Queensland Cultural Heritage Management
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
CQP Central Queensland Gas Pipeline
CQSS Central Queensland Strategy for Sustainability
CQSS2 Central Queensland Strategy for Sustainability – 2004 and Beyond
CRL Copper Refineries Pty Ltd
CSG Coal Seam Gas
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CSMP Construction Safety Management Plan
dB(A) Decibel
DCCEE Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
DCDB Digital Cadastral Data Base
DEEDI Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DEO Desired Environmental Outcome
DERM Department of Environment and Resource Management
DFE Defined Flood Event
DL Dysart Lateral
DO Dissolved oxygen
DR District Road
DSEWPAC Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and
Communities
DTMR Department of Transport and Main Roads
EA Environmental Authority
EEC Endangered Ecological Communities
EHMS Environmental, Health and Safety Management System
EIN Environmental Improvement Notice
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EL Elphinstone Lateral
EMP Environmental Management Plan
EMR Environmental management register
EMS Environmental Management System
EO Environmental Officer
EP Act Environmental Protection Act 1994
EP Regulation Environmental Protection Regulation 2008
EPBC Act Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
1999
EPC Exploration Permit - Coal
EPM Exploration Permit – Minerals
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
EPP Environmental Protection Policy
EPP(Air) Environmental Protection (Air) Policy 2008
EPP (Noise) Environmental Protection (Noise) Policy 2008
EPP(Waste) Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Policy 2000
EPP(Water) Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009
ERA Environmentally Relevant Activity
ERP Emergency Response Plan
ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area
ESD Ecologically Sustainable Development
EVNT Endangered, Vulnerable and Near Threatened
FBA Fitzroy Basin Association
FIFO Fly-in fly-out
FTE Full time equivalent
GAWB Gladstone Area Water Board
GGH Gladstone Gas Hub
GHG Greenhouse gas
GIS Geographical Information System
GLNG Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas
GQAL Good Quality Agricultural Land
GPC Gladstone Port Corporation
GPS Global Positioning System
GRP Gross Regional Product
GSDA Gladstone State Development Area
GST Goods and Services Tax
GVA Gross Value Added
ha hectares
HAZOP Hazard and Operability
HDD Horizontal Directional Drilling
HHMP Historic Heritage Management Plan
HSE Health, Safety and Environment
IAS Initial Advice Statement
ICHA Initial Cultural Heritage Assessment
ICHRD Indigenous Cultural Heritage Register and Database
ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites
IDAS Integrated Development Assessment System
IEMS Integrated Environmental Management System
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
ILUA Indigenous Land Use Agreement
IO Input-output
IP Act Integrated Planning Act 1997
JHA Job Hazard Analysis
kL Kilolitre
km Kilometre
km/h Kilometre per hour
KP Kilometre Point
kV Kilovolt
kVA Kilovolt ampere
L Litre
Land Act Land Act 1994
LGA Local Government Area
LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
LoS Level of Service
LP Act Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002
LP Regulation Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Regulation 2003
MAOP Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure
m Metre
m2 Squared metres
m3 Cubic metres
m/s Metres per second
MDL Mineral Development Licence
ML Mining Lease or Megalitre
mm Millimetres
MNES Matters of National Environmental Significance
MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet
MW Megawatt
NC Act Nature Conservation Act 1992
NCR Non-Conformance Report
NGA National Greenhouse Accounts
NH National Highway
NIC Northern Infrastructure Corridor
NNTT National Native Title Tribunal
NO Nitrogen dioxide
NQ Dry Tropics North Queensland Dry Tropics (Land and Water Solutions)
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
NRM Natural Resource Management
NRM Plan Natural Resource Management Plan
NT Act Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993
NTDA Native Title Determination Application
ntu Nephelometric Turbidity Units
NWQMS National Water Quality Management Strategy
OESR Office of Economic and Statistical Research
OH&S Occupational Health and Safety
P&G Act Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004
PASS Potential acid sulfate soils
PCHA Post-Construction Heritage Agreement
PL Petroleum Lease
PM Particulate matter (up to 2.5 micrometers in size)
2.5
PM Particulate matter (up to 10 micrometers in size)
10
PMAV Property Map of Assessable Vegetation
PNG Papua New Guinea
PPE Personal protective equipment
PPL Petroleum Pipeline Licence
PSL Petroleum Survey Licence
QFRS Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
QGC Queensland Gas Company
QGEOP Queensland Government Environmental Offset Policy
QH Act Queensland Heritage Act 1992
QHR Queensland Heritage Register
QLUMP Queensland Land Use Mapping Program
QNI Queensland Nickel Industry Pty Ltd
QWQG Queensland Water Quality Guidelines 2009
RE Regional Ecosystem
ROP Resource Operations Plan
ROW Right of Way
RPD Real Property Description
RR Regional Road
SCL Strategic Cropping Land
SCP Stakeholder Consultation Plan
SCR State Controlled Road
SDA State Development Area
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Abbreviation /
Meaning
acronym
SDPWO Act State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971
SGIC Stanwell-Gladstone Infrastructure Corridor
SGP Surat Gladstone Pipeline, now known as ASP
Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc
SIA Social Impact Assessment
SIMP Social Impact Management Plan
SL Saraji Lateral
SLA Statistical Local Area
SMS Safety Management Study
SP Act Sustainable Planning Act 2009
SP Regulation Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009
SPP State Planning Policy
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission
SSR State Strategic Road
t Tonnes
TCP Transport Coordination Plan for Queensland 2008
TI Act Transport Infrastructure Act 1994
TIA Traffic Impact Assessment
TMP Traffic Management Plan
TO Act Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995
TOR Terms of Reference
TP&C Act Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994
UHF Ultra-high frequency
UV Ultraviolet
UXO Unexploded ordnance
VHF Very high frequency
VM Act Vegetation Management Act 1999
vpd Vehicles per day
vph Vehicles per hour
WMP Waste Management Plan
WONS Weeds of National Significance
WRP Water Resource Plan

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Term Definition
Ambient Surrounding or background.
Ambient noise The sum of the noise from all sources, near and far, in a given
environment.
Anthropogenic Caused by humans or human activity.
Annual Return An annual return is a report that describes environmental management
activities at the project site for the previous 12 months. Refer to the fact
sheet Annual Return and Fee – Mining, Gas and Petroleum (Level 2),
November 2010.
ANZECC/ The Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council
and the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and
ARMCANZ
New Zealand.
Aquifer Rock or sediment in a formation, group of formations or part of a formation
that is saturated and sufficiently permeable to transmit economic quantities
of water to wells and springs.
Aquitard A bed of low permeability along an aquifer.
Amenity A feature that increases attractiveness or value, especially of a piece of
real estate or a geographic location.
Anabranch A stream that branches from a main river then reunites with it.
Average Minimum Assessed as the background noise level per standard time interval that
Background Noise was exceeded for ninety per cent of the interval, defined in AS1055 as the
Level rating background noise level.
A-weighted Filtering a sound level so that a microphone output approximates the
frequency response of a human ear to the sound.
Background noise The noise ordinarily present and continuous at a given location, excluding
extraneous noise and the noise source of interest. Commonly measured
using the statistical parameter, LA90, the A-weighted noise level that was
exceeded for ninety per cent of the monitoring period.
Biodiversity The variety of all life forms on earth – the different plants, animals and
micro-organisms, their genes, and the terrestrial, marine and freshwater
ecosystems of which they are a part..
Bioregion Bioregions are large, geographically distinct areas of land with common
characteristics such as geology, landform patterns, climate, ecological
features and plant and animal communities.
Blasting An action using or detonating explosives that may emit a loud, intense
sound.
Building and The policy requires that a minimum of 10 per cent of the total labour hours
Construction on any Queensland Government building or civil construction project
Contracts Structured (valued over $250,000 for building or $500,000 for civil construction) must
Training Policy (10 be undertaken by Indigenous workers, apprentices, trainees or cadets or
per cent training used for the upskilling of existing employees (to a maximum of 25 per cent
policy) of the deemed hours).
Bund An embankment constructed around an area to prevent the inflow or
outflow of liquids. Also called Bunding.
Catchment A water intake area or all parts of a drainage basin.
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