GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2010 - SECT 200
Obligation to decommission
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2010 - SECT 200
Obligation to decommission
200 Obligation to decommission
(1) The geothermal tenure holder must ensure
the geothermal well is decommissioned from use under this Act before the
tenure ends or the land on which the well is located ceases to be in the
tenure’s area.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
Note—
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an
executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 333A, to
have also committed the offence.
(2) However, subsection (1) does not apply
for land that, under section 189(1) , ceases to be in a geothermal permit’s
area.
(3) For subsection (1) , the geothermal well is decommissioned from use
under this Act only if—
(a) it has been plugged and abandoned in the way
prescribed under a regulation; and
(b) any relevant requirements under the
Water Act for the decommissioning of water wells used for the geothermal well
have been complied with; and
(c) the geothermal tenure holder has given the
Minister of the department in which the Water Act is administered a notice in
the approved form about the decommissioning.
