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South Australia
Petroleum and Geothermal Energy (Underground Coal
Gasification) Amendment Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Petroleum
and Geothermal Energy Act 2000
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Petroleum and
Geothermal Energy Act 2000
137AUnderground Coal
Gasification Prohibition
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy
(Underground Coal Gasification) Amendment Act 2016.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after assent.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Petroleum and Geothermal Energy
Act 2000
After section 137 insert:
137A—Underground Coal Gasification
Prohibition
(1) Despite another provision of this Act, or any other Act or law, a
person must not carry out underground coal gasification operations on any land
within the State.
(2) This section applies whether or not a person holds an exploration
licence or a production licence that would, but for the operation of this
section, entitle the holder of the licence to carry out underground coal
gasification operations on land within the State.
(3) No compensation is payable by or on behalf of the State in connection
with the operation of this section.
(4) In this section—
underground coal gasification operations means operations
that involve the recovery (or potential or enhanced recovery) of a form of gas
from an underground coal seam by the use of a gaseous substance (such as oxygen
or air) or water (or both) that is reacted with the coal in situ to initiate
gasification, other than operations for the production of geothermal
energy.