A report for WA's Department of Minerals and Petroleum (DMP) concludes that legislation designed to ensure good environmental performance by unconventional gas projects "lacks legal enforceability".
The new report identifying regulatory gaps under the State's Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act comes one month after Western Australia's Auditor-General found the DMP is failing to ensure compliance by some large projects, even though the Department of State Development expects it to do so .
The DMP commissioned the report by Bond University's Dr Tina Hunter to analyse the capacity of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act to regulate onshore unconventional gas exploration and production activities.
The report concludes that the legislative regime "lacks legal enforceability, attributable to the absence of resource management regulations and environmental regulations" under the Act.
Conservation Council of WA
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