Rehabilitation for Pipeline Infrastructure
Many landowners have negotiated easements with resource companies which authorise the construction, operation and maintenance of gas pipelines, particularly the major trunklines from the Surat Basin to the Gladstone LNG plant or trunklines from gas fields to compressor stations. A key feature in most easement agreements is an obligation on resource companies to comply with the conditions of its Environmental Authority (EA). The EA sets out the government imposed environmental conditions that must be complied with when activities are being undertaken on your land by resource companies. For example, a typical EA will require that all land significantly disturbed by petroleum activities be rehabilitated to: a stable landform with a self-sustaining vegetation cover with same species and density of cover…