Queensland Consolidated Acts

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2010 - SECT 76

76 Incidental activities

(1) The geothermal lease holder may carry out any other activity (an
"incidental activity" ) in the lease’s area if carrying out the activity is reasonably necessary for or is incidental to geothermal production.

Examples of incidental activities—

• constructing or operating facilities, plant or works, including, for example, communication systems, compressors, pipelines, pumping stations, reservoirs, roads, evaporation or storage ponds and tanks

• constructing or using temporary structures or structures of a technical nature

(2) However, constructing or using a structure, other than a temporary structure, for office or residential accommodation is not an incidental activity.

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the use of infrastructure supporting the use of, or using, geothermal energy is not, of itself, an incidental activity.

Example of infrastructure that uses geothermal energy—

a power station