Coal seam gas - Toward a risk management framework for a novel intervention

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-162

  Randall, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL SEAM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; EXTRACTION METHOD; INNOVATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84867119174     PISSN: 0813300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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1. Specific facts and numbers cited in this article can be found in ABC, Coal Seam Gas: By the Numbers, 24 November 2011 (Wendy Carlisle), http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/coal-seam-gas-by-the-numbers viewed 20 January 2012. Interpretations, judgments, and conclusions offered are the author's.
2. Queens land Government, Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells, http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/factsheets/pdf/environment/en10.pdf viewed 24 February 2012.
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20. Randall, n 6 at ch 7.
21. Suffice it to define a more completely specified precautionary principle as follows: "Credible scientific evidence of plausible threat of disproportionate (and perhaps asymmetric) harm calls for avoidance and mitigation measures beyond those recommended by ORM" (Randall, n 6, p 186).
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25. Randall, n 6 and n 16.