Land Rehabilitation – Landholders Protection Tool Kit
Over the past six months P&E Law has been engaged in a number of cases on behalf of landholders in dispute with resources companies primarily to have their land rehabilitated after the construction of coal seam gas infrastructure. Issues that consistently arise include weed invasion, subsidence, erosion, soil inversion and inappropriate seed mixes, all of which reduce productivity and require time and resources to fix. In some cases resource companies have turned their backs on landholders experiencing these problems and ignored their complaints. However, there are a number of tools available to protect landholders in this situation which can be used to: require resource companies to rehabilitate land in accordance with their rehabilitation obligations; and give rise to claims for additional…