Energy Law in Australia

Alexandra Wawryk · Carolyn Vigar · Paul Bradley · Tina Hunter

ማርች 2018 · Kluwer Law International B.V.

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Australia. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law.

A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained.

Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting Australia. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law.

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Carolyn Vigar has twenty years' experience as a specialist adviser on public law and regulation. Carolyn commenced her career with the Crown Solicitor's Office (SA) in 1997 as an adviser on the implementation of National Competition Policy. From 2002-2012, Carolyn was employed by Miner Ellison (Melbourne) as a specialist public law, regulation and competition law adviser. In 2013, Carolyn joined Wallmans Lawyers (Adelaide) as the leader of the public law and regulation practice. Carolyn currently is the principal of Tanom Legal.During her career, Carolyn provided legal services to both the public and private sectors on systems of regulation. Carolyn was a key advisor on the establishment of the National Electricity Market in 1998 and has had significant roles in respect of other fundamental developments Australia's energy markets. Other regulatory focuses include water, gas, waste, public lighting, renewable and embedded generation, geosequestration, ports and airports.Carolyn understands the correlation between the interpretation of regulatory frameworks and the physical and commercial realities of operating in regulated markets. Her practice has involved advising on established systems of regulation and whether these are 'fit for purpose' for the deployment of new or novel technologies. Aside from advising on established regulatory systems, Carolyn has been engaged to advise on regulatory design and deployment utilising a range of regulatory tools and strategies to achieve public policy and commercial objectives. She is the author of the parts, Part I. Regulatory Framework Concerning Electricity and Part VII. Interaction Between Energy Law and Competition Law, of this monograph. Paul Bradley received his Bachelor of Science from Flinders University, SA and his Postgraduate Diploma of Law and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Services from Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. He received a Master of Laws from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.Paul is currently a consultant in the Energy & Resources and Corporate and Commercial business units of the specialist commercial law firm, Cowell Clarke, in South Australia. He joined the firm in 2011 to establish the Energy, Resources and Environment practice group, and was partner and team leader of that group for a number of years.Paul's work as a legal practitioner has predominantly focussed on corporate, commercial and compliance work primarily for ASX listed energy and resource companies in Australia. He has acted as a legal adviser to clients within the gas sector in Australia for the past nine years, and regularly acts in matters involving large Australian energy companies.Paul has taken a particular interest in the developing legal landscape of oil and gas regulation in Australia. He spent many years as a committee member of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Energy and Resources Law Association (AMPLA) SA Branch, three years as a committee member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and has been a committee member of The Minerals Institute (AusIMM). He has authored Part II. Regulatory Framework Concerning Gas of this monograph. Professor Hunter specialises in Energy and Petroleum Law and is the Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL). She teaches and researches in the areas of National and International Petroleum Law, Unconventional Petroleum Regulation, Arctic Petroleum Law and Governance, International Investment Protection in the Energy Sector, and Resources Law and Policy. She has received academic qualifications in marine sediments, geology, political science, applied science, and law, completing her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway.She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bergen, the University of Aberdeen, Murdoch University, and the University of Texas, Austin. She has taught in many countries, including Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greece, Russia and Australia.Professor Hunter has presented at over fifty conferences on four continents, and written over forty peer reviewed articles. Her expertise has been sought by many national and state/regional governments, where she has been engaged to analyse petroleum laws, draft legislation and advise on technical, policy and governance issues relating to conventional and unconventional petroleum. She has also consulted to governments, industry groups and NGOs in several jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Russia, the Philippines and Canada. In June 2014, Professor Hunter participated in an unconventional gas learning symposium at the World Bank, Washington DC.Professor Hunter was previously a member of the South Australian Roundtable for Unconventional Gas Projects, and the working group for the Queensland Modernising Queensland Resources Acts Program. She is currently the Deputy Chair of the Marketing and Communication Committee of the Aberdeen Chapter of the SPE, a co-editor of the Oil, Gas and Energy Law Journal (OGEL), and co-editor of the upcoming OGEL Journal special on Decommissioning of Offshore Installations with Dr Alex Wawryk. She is the author and editor of several books, including the Handbook of Shale Gas Law and Policy (Intersentia), Regulation of the Upstream Petroleum Sector (Edward Elgar) and Petroleum Law in Australia (LexisNexis). She is currently researching and writing a book on the prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Region. She has co-authored the part, Part III. Regulatory Framework Concerning Petrol, of this monograph with Dr Alex Wawryk.