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PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES (ENVIRONMENT) REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 14

14 .         Environmental assessment

        (1)         The environment plan must include a comprehensive description of the activity including the following —

            (a)         the location or locations of the activity;

            (b)         details of the construction and layout of any facility;

            (c)         a description of the operational details of the activity and proposed timetables;

            (d)         any additional information relevant to consideration of the environmental impacts and environmental risks of the activity.

        (2)         The environment plan must —

            (a)         describe the existing environment that may be affected by the activity; and

            (b)         include details of the particular relevant values and sensitivities (if any) of that environment.

        (3)         The environment plan must include —

            (a)         details of all environmental impacts and environmental risks of the activity; and

            (b)         an evaluation of those impacts and risks; and

            (c)         a description of the environmental risk assessment process used to evaluate those impacts and risks, including the terms used in that process to categorise the levels of seriousness of those impacts and risks.

        (4)         For the avoidance of doubt, the evaluation mentioned in subregulation (3)(b) must evaluate all the environmental impacts and environmental risks arising directly or indirectly from —

            (a)         all aspects of the activity; and

            (b)         potential emergency conditions, whether resulting from accident or any other cause.

        (5)         The environment plan must include —

            (a)         environmental performance objectives that define the goals of the operator in relation to the —

                  (i)         processes, policies and practices to be followed; and

                  (ii)         equipment to be used; and

                  (iii)         actions to be taken,

                for the purposes of minimising the environmental impacts and environmental risks of the activity; and

            (b)         environmental performance standards —

                  (i)         that state the performance required of persons, equipment and procedures for the purposes of managing the environmental impacts and environmental risks of the activity; and

                  (ii)         against which the performance of the operator in meeting the environmental performance objectives in the environment plan can be measured;

                and

            (c)         measurement criteria for the purposes of determining whether —

                  (i)         the environmental performance objectives and environmental performance standards in the environment plan have been met; and

                  (ii)         the implementation strategy in the environment plan has been complied with.

        (6)         The environment plan must describe the requirements that —

            (a)         apply to the activity under legislation (including conditions imposed under legislation), international conventions or agreements, or applicable codes of practice; and

            (b)         are relevant to the environmental management of the activity.



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