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• to ratify, and authorise the implementation of, an
agreement between the State and the Gorgon joint venturers relating to a
proposal to undertake offshore production of natural gas and other petroleum
and a gas processing and infrastructure project on Barrow Island; the
agreement having been entered into having regard to the need to minimise
environmental disturbance on Barrow Island (a class A nature reserve) and
providing for the support of conservation programs relating to Barrow Island
and other parts of the State;
• to make provisions to enable land on
Barrow Island (but no more than 300 ha in total of uncleared land) to be
used, under the Land Administration Act 1997 , for gas processing
project purposes;
• to make provisions as to the conveyance and
underground disposal of carbon dioxide recovered during gas processing on
Barrow Island,
and for incidental purposes.