An environmental impact assessment shows Sun Cable's proposed $30 billion project would result in significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, but could also cause some potentially negative impacts.
About 3.2 gigawatts of renewable energy would then be transmitted along 788 kilometres of overhead transmission lines, largely following the railway corridor to Darwin.
They included possible impacts on vulnerable plant species, including Darwin Cycads, near the converter site at Murrumujuk and nearby Gunn Point. It noted the undersea cables would pass through areas where several threatened and migratory marine animals occur, including turtles, dugongs, pygmy blue whales and whale sharks.
It said it also required approvals from the NT's Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority to ensure sacred sites would not be impacted.
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