Sentences with phrase «exploration licence applications»

The second tier of the previous Western Australian Government's policy was the blanket application of the expedited procedure provisions to all exploration licence applications.

Victoria requires all mining and exploration licence applications to meet the requirements of the Native Title Act where they cover areas that contain Crown land potentially subject to native title.

«The freeze on NSW petroleum exploration licence applications and petroleum special prospecting authority applications was expected to end tomorrow.

NSW will cancel coal seam gas exploration licences applications covering 43 per cent of the state as part of a new plan to regain community support for a few carefully vetted strategic projects.

Not exact matches

Vancouver - based Pacton Gold Inc. has signed a letter of intent through which the company would acquire 100 per cent of the shares of CTTR Gold Pty. Ltd., an Australian exploration company that holds applications to nine tenement licences for a strategic mineral property group in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Moses and Paul Obeid have filed an application (NSD490 / 2014) in the Federal Court challenging s 155 notices issued to them by the ACCC as part of the ACCC's investigation into alleged cartel conduct relating to the 2009 tender process for an exploration mining licence over the Mount Penny coal tenement in the Bylong Valley.

In its assessment, the Taskforce has made recommendations to continue to submit exploration and prospecting licence applications to the expedited procedures process.

However, the Commission maintains concern regarding Taskforce recommendations relating to the processing of exploration and prospecting licence applications.

The State recently announced its new policy for the processing of exploration and prospecting licence applications in line with the recommendations of a Technical Taskforce aimed at reducing the current backlog of mining, exploration and prospecting tenement applications and putting in place processes to facilitate the granting of new applications.

vigorously support the negotiation of regional agreements designed to facilitate early consideration of native title issues where applications are made for exploration licences or mining leases;

Of the section 29 notices received, 2994, or 98 %, were applications for mining tenements (including exploration / prospecting licences and productive mining leases).

It is inconsistent with human rights principles that the right to negotiate be removed by the blanket application of a formula that pre-empts a proper consideration of the effect of an exploration or prospecting licence on native title.

It was further asserted that it is an improper exercise of administrative powers to apply the expedited procedure to all the applications for exploration licences, without regard to the question of whether the particular act is an act attracting the expedited procedure.

The major reason attributed for the backlog of mining title applications was»... delays arising from the interface of legislative requirements under the NTA and the Mining Act 1978» [59], and in particular, the requirement that exploration and prospecting licences be progressively surrendered within short time - frames (four to five years), usually before exploration activities are completed.

While the Taskforce Paper was not specific, it appears that the recommendations envisaged that, in return for the enactment of a heritage survey agreement requirement, native title parties may be required to give up their statutory right to object when and if the expedited procedure is applied to exploration and prospecting licence applications.

The Taskforce Paper recommended that mining lease applications should be subject to the full right to negotiate processes under the NTA, but that the expedited procedure should be applied to all applications for exploration and prospecting licences.