Coal seam gas exploration and production in NSW: the new access argument

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 688
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fulcher ◽  
Martin Klapper
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
The State ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Legal Arguments ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Coal Reserves

The legal frameworks around access to coal seam gas (CSG) resources in NSW are perhaps less developed than in Queensland. Coal appears to be favoured in terms of accessibility over CSG in the premier state. This paper will examine the rules relating to access to CSG resources in NSW; explain the long-standing policy favouring coalover CSG; and, will argue that the state may have to move to amend or overhaul its gas land access arrangements in the next few years.As CSG players look for further reserves in the largely untapped area of NSW coal provinces, the legal arguments about access to extant coal reserves are likely to heat up.

Coal seam gas legislation of Queensland

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 590
Author(s):  
Paul Careless
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Gasification ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Underground Coal Gasification ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Gasification Products ◽  
Ongoing Concern

An overview will be presented of the Queensland petroleum and environmental legislation relating to the exploration for and production of coal seam gas with three key focusses: a discussion of the statutory classification of coal seam gas as petroleum and the relevant statutory regulatory regime, which applies particularly with respect to competing or coincident minerals such as coal and coal gasification products; a description of the principal features and requirements for both exploration and production tenures, including land access and compensation obligations. Reference will be made to associated environmental authorities and licences, and particular environmental issues such as the containment and disposal of water will be brought to the surface as a part of production operations; and, how the legislation has sought to deal with the coordination of exploration and production operations between coal seam gas, conventional coal mining and the more recent technology of underground coal gasification with respect to the same areas. The paper will conclude with a discussion of areas of ongoing concern and difficulty including the ability to transport associated water through pipeline systems, land access and gas storage in natural underground reservoirs.

Reuse of Coal Seam Gas Brackish Water in Australia.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (5) ◽  
pp. 3650-3657
Author(s):  
James E. Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Coal Seam Gas

scholarly journals Representativeness in Geographical Indications: A Comparison between the State-Driven and Producer-Driven Systems in Vietnam and France

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5056
Author(s):  
Barbara Pick ◽  
Delphine Marie-Vivien
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
The State ◽  
Geographical Indications ◽  
Driven Systems ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the issues of representativeness and participation in the collective processes involved in the elaboration of the geographical indications (GI) specifications and the governance of the GI initiatives. The objective is to understand the relationship among collective dynamics, representativeness of relevant stakeholders, and the legal frameworks for the protection of GIs. Using a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of six case studies in France and Vietnam, we show the role of the law in shaping the different ways of understanding and implementing the concept of representativeness in the French producer-led and the Vietnamese state-driven approaches to GI protection. In France, the GI specifications result from negotiations among all legitimate stakeholders, which may prove long, complex, and lead to standards that can continue to be challenged after the GI registration. We also argue that the rules for the representation of all GI users in the decision-making processes do not necessarily lead to fairness. In Vietnam, local stakeholders usually have a consultative role under the authority of the State, resulting in their little understanding and low use of the GI. Their empowerment is further hindered by the involvement of state authorities in the management of the producers’ associations. We conclude by discussing in-between solutions to promote the producers’ representation and participation.

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.

Accelerating oil and gas investment and reserves by design

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Barry A. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Producers ◽  
Crude Oil Prices ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Operations

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence (Adams 1770). Some people unfamiliar with upstream petroleum operations, some enterprises keen to sustain uncontested land use, and some people against the use of fossil fuels have and will voice opposition to land access for oil and gas exploration and production. Social and economic concerns have also arisen with Australian domestic gas prices tending towards parity with netbacks from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. No doubt, natural gas, LNG and crude-oil prices will vary with local-to-international supply-side and demand-side competition. Hence, well run Australian oil and gas producers deploy stress-tested exploration, delineation and development budgets. With these challenges in mind, successive governments in South Australia have implemented leading-practice legislation, regulation, policies and programs to simultaneously gain and sustain trust with the public and investors with regard to land access for trustworthy oil and gas operations. South Australia’s most recent initiatives to foster reserve growth through welcomed investment in responsible oil and gas operations include the following: a Roundtable for Oil and Gas; evergreen answers to frequently asked questions, grouped retention licences that accelerate investment in the best of play trends; the Plan for ACcelerating Exploration (PACE) Gas Program; and the Oil and Gas Royalty Return Program. Intended and actual outcomes from these initiatives are addressed in this extended abstract.

Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Conventional and Coal Seam Gas LNG

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hardisty ◽  
Tom Clark ◽  
Robert Hynes
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Gas Emissions

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.

Reservoir Characterisation Using Permanent Distributed Temperature Sensing in Coal Seam Gas Development: Success and Challenges in the Surat Basin

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bottomley ◽  
J. P. Furniss ◽  
I. Oguche ◽  
M. Konopczynski
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
Distributed Temperature Sensing ◽  
Coal Seam Gas

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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