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Blackwater Coal Mine

In FY2024-25, Blackwater Coal Mine reported covered emissions 111,146 t CO2-e above its baseline. Under the current settings it is modelled at … in FY2034-35.

WHITEHAVEN BLACKWATER PTY LTD · QLD · Coal mining (060). Ranked 39 of 209 by covered emissions in the FY2024-25 Safeguard register, 0.60% of the scheme's 132.8 Mt.

Above baseline FY2024-25

Current position · FY2024-25, as published

Current position

Published register values. The baseline is the emissions limit the rules set for the facility; covered emissions are the scope 1 emissions it reported. A facility above its baseline must surrender Safeguard credits or ACCUs for the difference. A facility below its baseline may receive Safeguard credits, subject to the crediting rules.

Covered emissions FY2024-25801,671 tOfficialScope 1 emissions reported by the facility as covered by the scheme.
Baseline FY2024-25690,525 tOfficialThe emissions limit set under the Rule. ERC applied in the year: 0.902.
Amount above or below baseline+111,146 tOfficialCovered emissions exceeded the baseline. The facility must surrender Safeguard credits or ACCUs for the difference.
Share of the scheme0.60%OfficialRank 39 of 209 by covered emissions.

Composition of covered emissions by gas

The register reports covered emissions by greenhouse gas. At this facility methane accounts for 54.93% of the total. The gas mix helps indicate which types of abatement may be relevant, although it does not identify the emitting process.

Greenhouse gast CO₂-eShare
Carbon dioxide360,27644.94%
Methane440,32154.93%
Nitrous oxide1,0490.13%
Other250.00%

Units surrendered and issued

Only the register lines with a value for this facility are shown. A line that is blank in the register is omitted rather than shown as zero.

Register lineUnits or tonnes
ACCUs surrendered88,622
Safeguard credits surrendered22,524
Net emissions number690,525

Change since previous year

FY2023-24 to FY2024-25

This facility name does not appear in the FY2023-24 register, so no comparison is shown. The facility may have entered the scheme in FY2024-25, may have been below the coverage threshold in the previous year, or may have reported under a different name. Which of these applies has not been verified. The Atlas method page lists the name pairs identified for verification.

Modelled pathway

The baseline path to FY2034-35

Under the Safeguard Rule a baseline is production multiplied by an applicable emissions intensity and by the emissions reduction contribution (ERC). The ERC is the part that falls each year: by 0.049 per year to FY2029-30, and from FY2030-31 by the post-2030 decline rate. This facility holds no trade-exposed baseline adjustment determination and follows the default path. The controls below change the rate and the production assumption; the chart and figures are recalculated for this facility.

Modelled The path scales the published baseline by the change in the ERC. It is not a compliance determination and not a forecast of the facility's emissions: covered emissions are held at the FY2024-25 level and adjusted only by the selected production assumption. The Regulator's published baseline governs.

Peer comparison

Facilities in the same reporting category

The FY2024-25 register includes 66 facilities in this reporting category (Coal mining (060)). The median one reported 340,920 t; this facility reported 801,671 t, above the median. The category is a reporting classification rather than a description of the process. Two facilities with the same code may operate different plant, so the comparison is indicative only.

Facilities of similar size in the same reporting category: Hail Creek Mine (987,836 t), Oaky Creek Coal Complex (838,833 t), Carborough Downs Coal Mine (793,653 t), Metropolitan Colliery (780,758 t).

Commodity used for the production assumption on this page: coal, blended 50% metallurgical coal. Assumption

Sources

Sources

InputSourceKind
Baseline, covered emissions, ERC, unit flows, greenhouse gas split Clean Energy Regulator — Safeguard facility reported emissions and baselines, FY2024-25 Official
Minimum baseline and the credit calculation NGER (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 — s 10(1), s 57 Official
Production assumption Office of the Chief Economist, Resources and Energy Quarterly, applied as one factor per commodity Assumption
The path to FY2034-35 Heliovulcan — the calculation used in Safeguard Atlas, which recomputes the figures published in the 2026 decline-rate submission in the reader's browser Modelled

Page generated 2026-09-27 from the FY2024-25 register. Errors identified by readers will be corrected, and each correction will be published with its date.