New Opportunities for Improving Mine Rehabilitation: Queensland's Environmental Protection (Chain of Responsibility) Amendment Act 2016
tjryan Foundation policy brief, Aug 2016
14 Pages Posted: 7 Mar 2017
Date Written: August 3, 2016
Abstract
This article explains how and why the statutory requirements for mining rehabilitation have failed to serve Queensland in the past and how the Environmental Protection (Chain of Responsibility) Amendment Act 2016, Qld, attempts to address this problem. By placing responsibility for mine rehabilitation on mining companies and ‘related persons’, the 2016 Qld Act forges unchartered territory and will operate quite differently to, for example, the Mining Rehabilitation Fund in Western Australia. The strengths and weaknesses of the two different approaches are compared.
Keywords: Environmental protection, mine rehabilitation
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