Queensland will be making significant changes to the
workplace and environmental frameworks for resources
projects.
The introduction of the Strong and Sustainable Resource
Communities Bill 2016 conveys the Queensland Government's
election commitment to ensuring that those regional communities
located nearby to large resource projects will benefit from their
operation.
What does this mean for resource projects?
The introduction of the Strong and Sustainable Resource
Communities Bill 2016 (SSRC Bill) includes
important potential changes for:
- owners (and also related body corporate, agents, and other
third parties);
- of a large resource project (being a mining or petroleum
resource project which requires an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) under the Environmental Protection Act 1994
(EP Act) or the State Development and Public Works
Organisation Act 1971 (SDPWO Act));
