Queensland Consolidated Acts

GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2009 - SECT 254

254 Monitoring reports by GHG lease holder

(1) This section applies to the holder of a GHG lease.

(2) The holder must within 2 months after each of its anniversary days give each relevant chief executive a monitoring report for the 12 months that ended on the last anniversary day.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—150 penalty units.

(3) Any relevant chief executive may by notice require the holder to within 30 business days give each relevant chief executive a monitoring report for the period since—

(a) the holder last gave a monitoring report under subsection (2) ; or

(b) if a monitoring report has not yet been required to be given under subsection (2) —the granting of the GHG lease.

(4) The holder must comply with a notice given under subsection (3) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—150 penalty units.

(5) In this section—

"anniversary day" , for a GHG lease, means each day that is the anniversary of the day on which it took effect.

"monitoring report" means a report about the expected migration pathway or pathways of GHG streams during and after injection into GHG storage reservoirs under the GHG lease.

"relevant chief executive" means—

(a) the chief executive of the department in which this Act is administered; or

(b) the chief executive of the department in which the Environmental Protection Act is administered; or

(c) the chief executive of the department in which the Water Act is administered.