Bill
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stop PEP11 Forever and Protect Our Coastal Waters) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2024-09-10.
- Sponsor
- Zali Steggall
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-02-26
- other — 2024-09-10
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-02-26.
This bill would cancel a specific offshore petroleum exploration permit and ban all future petroleum activity in that area.
The Joint Authority, made up of the relevant state and federal ministers, would be blocked from considering or granting any petroleum titles related to that permit.
The permit would automatically end two months after the bill becomes law.
- Cancels Petroleum Exploration Permit 11.
- Prohibits the Joint Authority from processing any applications linked to that permit.
- Bans the grant of various petroleum titles in the permit area.
The titleholders of PEP11, local communities, tourism businesses, and coastal ecosystems near Newcastle, the Central Coast, and Manly Beach.
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