Bill
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021
lapsed, as at 2022-04-11. (s) STEGGALL, Zali, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Zali Steggall
- Portfolio
- (s) STEGGALL, Zali, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-10-18
- second reading — 2021-10-18
- other — 2022-04-11
Divisions
- Business - Rearrangement - Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 — 2021-10-21, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 53, noes 48
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-10-18.
This bill would cancel a specific petroleum exploration permit and ban all future oil and gas activity in its area.
It would prevent the decision-making body from considering or continuing to consider applications related to that permit.
The permit covers 4,575 square kilometres off the New South Wales coast, and the two companies that hold it are the only current titleholders.
- The bill cancels Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP11).
- It stops the Joint Authority from dealing with any PEP11 applications.
- It blocks the Titles Administrator from granting new titles over PEP11 blocks.
- It ends PEP11 two months after the bill becomes law.
- It prohibits any future petroleum exploration or production in the PEP11 area.
The permit's current holders (two companies), the Joint Authority, the Titles Administrator, and communities along the New South Wales coast from Newcastle to Manly Beach.
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