Monday, March 26

New South Wales CSG regulations bring certainty for miners, but not communities



In NSW the last 12 months has seen a quantum leap in the government focus on coal seam gas (CSG).

In December 2010 the then-Labor NSW state government introduced a moratorium on gas well fracking. They also told the NSW Office of Water to regulate the water impacts of gas exploration, which to that time had been the sole domain of the Mineral Resources Section of the Department of Industry and Investment.

Since 2010 the Federal Government has used the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to regulate operational CSG projects in Queensland, but since NSW only has only one operational field, the Camden project, it has had little impact in NSW.

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