{"id":8214,"date":"2011-06-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/06\/06\/hedland-development-plan-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:40:20","slug":"hedland-development-plan-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/hedland-development-plan-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedland development plan unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plans are for a 4km access jetty and 2km wharf to the north of Finucane Island. Jetty conveyors will move ore material from a station on the island to a transfer deck, then on to the wharf conveyors and into four shiploaders servicing eight shiploading berths.<\/p>\n<p>The mining company is also seeking approval for a plan to allow the passage of recreational water craft under the elevated jetty trestle at controlled locations.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which will require dredging to create new berth pockets, basins, channels and links to the existing navigation will create 54m cubic metres of dredged material.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the development will require extensive material handling infrastructure and hinterland links along a proposed infrastructure corridor which will extend from the stockyards at Boodarie to the jetty on the northern shore of Finucane Island, crossing a creek via an elevated causeway.<\/p>\n<p>The PER\/Draft EIS will be available for public comment for a period of eight weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP Billiton is seeking government approvals for the comprehensive development of its outer harbour facility in Port Hedland, which includes landside infrastructure and marine development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8216,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}