TRADITIONAL OWNERS

Strong measured solar resources Boolathana, Western Australia

GGE recognises and respects the Yinggarda and Baiyungu people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the proposed Gascoyne Green Energy Boolathana project is located. 

GGE is committed to and will continue to undertake each stage of the project’s development in close consultation with:

  • the Yinggarda people directly and through Gumala Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) who represent the Yinggarda Aboriginal Corporation, and
  • the Baiyungu people directly and through Yamatji Marpla Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) who represent the Nganhurra, Tharnardi Garbu Aboriginal Corporation (NTGAC

Native Title

Non-exclusive Native Title exists over all Boolathana via the Gnulli Determination of Native Title Prescribed Body Corporates (PBC) WAD22/2019, WAD366/2018 and WAD261/2019 – Gnulli, Gnulli #2 and Gnulli #3 – Yinggarda, Baiyungu and Thalanyji people.[1]

1National Native Title Tribunal (n.d.), ARCGIS Map 

Consultation and Consent

Boolathana Station landscape showing conditions for green energy production by Gascoyne Green Energy

GGE has been working closely with the First Nations people to consult and Traditional Owner prescribed body corporates to obtain consent at various stages of the Gascoyne Green Energy Boolathana Project.

GGE has successfully received Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from the the from the Board members of Yinggarda Aboriginal Corporation and from the Board members of the Nganhurra Tharnardi Garrbu Aboriginal Corporation.  

GGE will continue to consult at each stage of the project’s development, working with the Traditional Owners directly and through their representative bodies.

If the proposed GGE Boolathana Project is deemed to be feasible, it may lead to various meaningful ways we can work together with Traditional Owners and achieve common goals.

Sun and wind resources for renewable energy production by Gascoyne Green Energy Western Australia

What's in a name ...

According to the publication, Language Lives in the Aboriginal Place Names of the Gascoyne, the name Boolathana may mean treeless.

Pulaya (pronounced boolaya) means land in Yinggarda and thanma means hard or strong and hard ground grows no trees.”hana” means ‘they’ according to the Payungu* Dictionary compiled by Peter Austin in the 1980’s,  so it could have meant ‘’their land’.

The essence of Boolathana is ‘strong land that is treeless’ and perhaps why the name has been kept in use by the early settlers and the local community to present day.

* (sic) – accepted spelling Bayungu or Baiyungu

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