QELA Seminar: Decommissioning issues for the resources and quarrying industries - Brisbane
Jun 2015 |
Oil & Gas, hard rock and quarries - what are the obligations to rehabilitate and decommission, do they work, and are there new alternatives for re-use of the rehabilitated land?
With the continuing maturity of the Australian mining and quarrying industries, there will increasingly come a phase of major infrastructure reaching the end of its operational life. As an example, a number of Queensland’s foundation pipelines and upstream oil and conventional gas infrastructure were originally constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. Over time, there will also increasingly be other items of significant infrastructure which will have out-lived the resource they service, or otherwise cease to be functional either in whole or in part.
Whilst the vast majority of the industry’s time, effort and resources are dedicated to developing new projects and expansion, all owners and operators, and those who work with them, will have to consider the legal and regulatory requirements to rehabilitate and decommission these assets at the end of the line.
This seminar will look specifically at rehabilitation and decommissioning obligations of upstream petroleum, pipelines, hard rock mines and quarries.
Alongside industry colleagues, partner Bronwyn Clarkson will discuss decommissioning issues for the resources and quarrying industries. Senior Associate Johanna Kennerley is seminar chair.
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