LEGAL ISSUES FOR COOPERATIVE AND CONCURRENT MINING AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTION

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 543
Author(s):  
J.S. Minchinton
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Petroleum Production ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Government Involvement

Increasingly, miners and petroleum producers are seeking rights of access to the same territory to explore for and extract their favoured resource, particularly in areas where there are commercial quantities of coal seam gas.Governments are encouraging miners and petroleum producers to maximise the extraction of their respective resources to supply the growing energy needs of Australian and international markets. These powerful drivers have led to legislation in several states including Queensland to encourage cooperative resource extraction by different parties operating in the same area.But while legislation provides an overall framework, significant issues are left to resource companies to resolve through the development of technical and commercial solutions for the joint extraction of resources with limited government involvement. Once a technical and commercial solution is agreed, a legal agreement is necessary to cement the arrangement.What legal issues need to be considered in agreements between miners and petroleum producers? Will exploration need to be addressed separately from production? How can flexibility be built into the agreement to allow for a change in circumstance? How can disputes be resolved and what role is there for courts and tribunals in disputes? Will standard boilerplate provisions be adequate for the agreement in hand?This paper seeks to answer some of these questions by highlighting the commercial and legal issues relevant to negotiations with particular reference to coordination arrangements for overlapping mining leases and petroleum leases under the Queensland coal seam gas regime.

scholarly journals Environmental issues associated with coal seam gas recovery: managing the fracking boom

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme E. Batley ◽  
Rai S. Kookana
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Ecological Risks ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Energy Needs

Environmental context Coal seam gas reserves are likely to make a major contribution to future energy needs. However, the new technology for exploiting these reserves, termed hydraulic fracturing, raises several environmental issues. We discuss the research required to assess the ecological risks from gas recovery. Abstract Coal seam gas reserves represent a major contribution to energy needs, however, gas recovery by hydraulic fracturing (fracking or fraccing), requires management to minimise any environmental effects. Although the industry is adapting where possible to more benign fracking chemicals, there is still a lack of information on exposure to natural and added chemicals, and their fate and ecotoxicity in both the discharged produced and flow-back waters. Geogenic contaminants mobilised from the coal seams during fracking may add to the mixture of chemicals with the potential to affect both ground and surface water quality. The research needs to better assess the ecological risks from gas recovery are discussed.

Infrastructure

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Klein
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transport ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Sunk Costs ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
Quality Regulation ◽  
Government Involvement ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Infrastructure Services

Infrastructure services in energy, transport, water, and telecommunications services underpin the wealth of modern nations. Yet inefficiencies abound. In developing nations hundreds of millions of people lack access to modern infrastructure services. Globally, as much as 40 percent of expenditures on infrastructure may constitute waste, equivalent to some 1 to 2 percent of global GDP. Natural monopoly features and sunk costs provide incentives for the parties to infrastructure ventures to play ransom games. Particularly in developing economies prices are often well below cost. Hence investors shy away and access remains limited. Government involvement in project choice and implementation may lead to ‘white elephants’ and mismanagement. Where head-to-head competition can be introduced, such as in modern telecommunications systems, the syndrome can be kept in check. Yet where such competition is not feasible, policymaking and inevitable price and quality regulation remain a challenge, requiring patient effort at arm’s-length from day-to-day political pressures.

Informal and Nonformal Adult Learning in the Coal Seam Gas Protests: Mobilizing Practices and Building an Environmental Justice Movement for Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362110053
Author(s):  
Tracey Ollis
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Earth

This case study research examines informal adult learning in the Lock the Gate Alliance, a campaign against mining for coal seam gas in Central Gippsland, Australia. In the field of the campaign, circumstantial activists learn to think critically about the environment, they learn informally and incidentally, through socialization with experienced activists from and through nonformal workshops provided by the Environmental Nongovernment Organization Friends of the Earth. This article uses Bourdieu’s “theory of practice,” to explore the mobilization of activists within the Lock the Gate Alliance field and the practices which generate knowledge and facilitate adult learning. These practices have enabled a diverse movement to educate the public and citizenry about the serious threat fracking poses to the environment, to their land and water supply. The movements successful practices have won a landmark moratorium on fracking for coal seam gas in the State of Victoria.

scholarly journals Classification of coal seam outburst hazards and evaluation of the importance of influencing factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianzhi Shi ◽  
Dazhao Song ◽  
Ziwei Qian
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Geological Factors ◽  
Hazard Level ◽  
Outburst Hazard

AbstractCoal and gas outbursts are the result of several geological factors related to coal seam gas (coal seam gas pressureTo classify the outburst hazard level of a coal seam by means of statistical methods, this study considered the geological parameters of coal seam gas and statistical data on the amount of material involved in coal outbursts. Through multivariate regression analysis, a multivariate regression equation between the outburst coal quantity andUsing a significance evaluation of the aforementioned factors, the relative contributions of the gas-related geological parameters to the outburst hazard level of a coal seam were found to follow the orderThis work provides a scientific basis for evaluating the outburst hazard level of a coal seam and adopting feasible and economical outburst-prevention measures.

Evaluation of social externalities in regional communities affected by coal seam gas projects: A case study from Southeast Queensland

2017 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 300-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna (Anya) Phelan ◽  
Les Dawes ◽  
Robert Costanza ◽  
Ida Kubiszewski
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Southeast Queensland
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