Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017 (WA)

Western Australia Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017 Western Australia Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017 Contents 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used 1 3A. Existing petroleum authority area 3 4. Prohibition on hydraulic fracturing in certain areas of the State 3 5. Moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in other areas of the State 4 Schedule 1 — Dampier Peninsula hydraulic fracturing ban area Division 1 — Description of area Division 2 — Map of area (for information purposes only) Schedule 2 — Map of iconic natural heritage places (for information purposes only) Notes Compilation table 8 Defined terms Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017

1. Citation These regulations are the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017.

2. Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows — (a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3. Terms used In these regulations — Dampier Peninsula hydraulic fracturing ban area means the area described in Schedule 1 Division 1 (a map of which is included for information purposes in Schedule 1 Division 2); existing petroleum authority area has the meaning given in regulation 3A(1); hydraulic fracturing means the underground petroleum extraction process that involves the injection of fluids under high pressure into low permeability rock to induce fractures for the purpose of increasing the rock's permeability; iconic natural heritage place means an area (shown for information purposes on the map in Schedule 2) that is — (a) part of the West Kimberley National Heritage place; and (b) an existing petroleum authority area on the day on which the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Amendment Regulations 2021 regulation 4 commences; metropolitan region has the meaning given in the Planning and Development Act 2005 section 4(1); moratorium area means an area of the State that is not — (a) an existing petroleum authority area; or (b) an area referred to in regulation 4; moratorium period means the period beginning on 9 December 2017 and ending on the day on which regulation 5 is repealed; Peel region means the region described in the Planning and Development Act 2005 Schedule 4 item 6; petroleum authority means an authority under Part III Divisions 2, 2A or 3 of the Act to carry out a petroleum operation; public drinking water source area means — (a) a catchment area or water reserve constituted under the Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947 section 9(1); or (b) a catchment area or water reserve constituted under the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909 section 13; or (c) an Underground Water Pollution Control Area constituted under the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909 section 57A; South West region means the region described in the Planning and Development Act 2005 Schedule 4 item 8; West Kimberley National Heritage place means the place included in the National Heritage List (as defined in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth) section 324C(1)) by instrument published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. S132 on 31 August 2011. [Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 6 Sep 2019 p. 3198‑9; SL 2021/167 r. 4.]