Queensland Numbered Acts

MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 201

201 Insertion of new s 799CA

After section 799C —
insert—

799CA Meaning of remediation activity

(1) Each of the following activities is a
"remediation activity" —

(a) investigating the condition of—

(i) an abandoned site or affected land; or

(ii) an abandoned operating plant; or

(iii) a structure or equipment on an abandoned site or affected land related to the abandoned operating plant;

(b) capping a wellhead on an abandoned site;

(c) drilling a well or water bore on an abandoned site or affected land to monitor or remediate the site, land or an abandoned operating plant;

(d) maintaining an abandoned operating plant to make it safe;

Examples—

monitor, inspect, carry out repairs

(e) decommissioning an abandoned operating plant;

Examples—

degassing a facility, removing part of a facility

(f) removing, modifying or otherwise making safe structures or equipment on an abandoned site or affected land that are related to an abandoned operating plant;

(g) mitigating, managing, treating or cleaning up pollution that is on an abandoned site or affected land because of, directly or indirectly, an abandoned operating plant;

(h) maintaining, managing and monitoring the condition of an abandoned site or affected land, including, for example—

(i) repairing erosion of the site or land, or vegetation on the site or land; or

(ii) preventing further erosion of the site, land or vegetation; or

(iii) revegetating the site or land;

(i) if an abandoned site or affected land is contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act —conducting work to remediate the site or land;

(j) removing, mitigating or managing a hazard on an abandoned site or affected land because of, directly or indirectly, an abandoned operating plant;

(k) mitigating, managing or monitoring risks to, or adverse impacts on, public health or safety, other property or the environment because of, directly or indirectly, an abandoned operating plant, including, by constructing infrastructure or installing equipment;

(l) another activity on an abandoned site or affected land, or in relation to an abandoned operating plant, prescribed by regulation—

(i) to make the site, land or abandoned operating plant safe;

(ii) to mitigate, manage or monitor risks to, or adverse impacts on, public health or safety, other property or the environment because of, directly or indirectly, an abandoned operating plant.

(2) In this section—

"other property" , in relation to an abandoned operating plant, means—

(a) land that is not an abandoned site or affected land related to the abandoned operating plant; or

(b) a structure, equipment or other thing, other than a structure or equipment—

(i) related to the abandoned operating plant; or

(ii) on an abandoned site or affected land related to the abandoned operating plant.