Queensland Consolidated Regulations

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION 2017 - REG 12BE

12BE Additional safety requirement—requirement to fill boreholes

(1) This section prescribes safety requirements for plugging and abandoning a borehole drilled for a mine’s mining lease (coal) in an overlapping area.

(2) The site senior executive for a coal mine must ensure that, as part of the plugging and abandoning of the borehole—

(a) the borehole is filled with cement from the bottom of the borehole to the surface of the borehole, unless each operator of an authorised activities operating plant in the overlapping area otherwise agrees; and

(b) packers and fluids are not left in the borehole.

(3) This section applies in addition to the requirements under section 100 .