Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) The environment
plan must include an implementation strategy for the activity in accordance
with this regulation.
(2) The implementation
strategy must include measures to ensure that the environmental performance
objectives and environmental performance standards in the environment plan are
met.
(3) The implementation
strategy must identify the specific systems, practices and procedures to be
used to ensure that —
(a) the
environmental impacts and environmental risks of the activity are continuously
reduced to as low as is reasonably practicable; and
(b) the
environmental performance objectives and environmental performance standards
in the environment plan are met.
(4) The implementation
strategy must establish a clear chain of command, setting out the roles and
responsibilities of personnel in relation to the implementation, management
and review of the environment plan.
(5) The implementation
strategy must include measures to ensure that each employee or contractor
working on, or in connection with, the activity is aware of his or her
responsibilities in relation to the environment plan and has the appropriate
competencies and training.
(6) The implementation
strategy must provide for the monitoring of, audit of, management of
non‑compliance with, and review of, the operator’s environmental
performance and the implementation strategy.
(7) The implementation
strategy must provide for —
(a)
specified emissions and discharges (whether occurring during normal operations
or otherwise) to any land, air, marine, seabed, sub‑seabed, groundwater,
sub‑surface or inland waters environment to be monitored and recorded in
a way that —
(i)
is accurate; and
(ii)
can be audited against the environmental performance
standards and measurement criteria in the environment plan;
and
(b) the
monitoring mentioned in paragraph (a) to be done either continuously or
at specified intervals; and
(c)
tests to assess the performance of the monitoring equipment used for the
purposes of paragraph (a) to be conducted at specified intervals.
(8) If the activity is
a petroleum activity that may involve the injection or re‑injection of
produced formation water into wells, the implementation strategy must specify
the maximum permissible concentration of petroleum in that produced formation
water.
(9) The implementation
strategy must include details of any chemicals or other substances that may
be —
(a) in,
or added to, any treatment fluids to be used for the purposes of drilling or
hydraulic fracturing undertaken in the course of the activity; or
(b)
otherwise introduced into a well, reservoir or subsurface formation in the
course of the activity.
(10) The
implementation strategy must include an oil spill contingency plan
that —
(a) sets
out details of the following —
(i)
preparations to be made for the possibility of an oil
spill;
(ii)
emergency response arrangements to be implemented if an
oil spill occurs;
(iii)
recovery arrangements to be implemented if an oil spill
occurs;
(iv)
current oil spill trajectory modelling that applies to
the activity;
and
(b)
requires the operator to conduct tests of the emergency response arrangements
set out in the oil spill contingency plan at specified intervals; and
(c)
describes the tests mentioned in paragraph (b).
(11) The
implementation strategy must provide for appropriate consultation with
relevant authorities and other relevant interested persons or organisations.