Landowners' vs Miners' Property Interests

Environmental Defenders Office New South Wales, Mining Law in New South Wales (Discussion Paper, June 2011).

See, eg, ‘Brown and Katter Back Anti-CSG Activist’, Australian Financial Review (online), 7 December 2011 http://afr.com/p/national/brown_and_katter_back_anti_csg_activist_ifLQPbYK8yxo5nHjGPwvEM; ‘CSG Defence “Insulting”’ Queensland Country Life (Queensland) 27 May 2010.

Blackstone William Sir , Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book 2 (1765–1769), Ch 1 (2003–2012) <http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/blackstone/bla-201.htm>.

Locke John , Two Treatises of Government (first published, 1689).

Entick v Carrington (1765) 19 St Tr 1029, 1066 (Lord Camden LCJ).

Blackstone , above n 3.

Singer Joseph William , ‘The Ownership Society and Takings of Property: Castles, Investments and Just Obligations’ (2006) 30 Harvard Environmental Law Review 309, 314.

Keane Sandi , ‘Coal Seam Gas: Is it Too Late to Lock the Gate?’, Independent Australia (online), 27 April 2011. <http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/environment/coal-seam-gas-is-it-too-late-to-lock-the-gate/.

Introduced by Senator Larissa Waters on 24 August 2011.

Blackstone , above n 3. See the recent discussion on the application of the doctrine to strata below the surface in Bocardo SA v Star Energy UK Onshore Ltd [2010] 3 WLR 654.

Case of Mines (1567) 1 Plowd 310; 75 ER 472.

Mineral Resources Act 1989 (Qld) s 8; Petroleum Act 1923 (Qld) s 9.

Bita Natasha , ‘Land Title Loophole Could Cost Bligh $1.5bn in Royalties’, The Australian (online), 10 September 2011 <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/land-title-loophole-could-cost-bligh-15bn-in-royalties/story-e6frgczx-1226133495057.

Water Act 2000 (Qld) s 19.

See, eg, Water Act 2000 (Qld) s 206, on the granting of licences to owners of land to take water from that land or to interfere with its flow.

Burdon Peter , ‘Towards an Earth-Friendly Legal System’ (2009) 19(12) Eureka Street 20.

Burdon Peter , ‘Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence’ (2010) 35(2) Alternative Law Journal 62, 63.

For example, Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld) s 495 requires only an entry notice to precede entry to land for preliminary and certain advanced activities. ‘Advanced activities’ require a conduct and compensation agreement under Ch 5, Pt 5.

Roarty Michael , ‘The Development of Australia's Coal Seam Gas Resources’, (Background Note, Parliament of Australia, July 2011).

Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld) s 3(1)(a).

Ibid s 3(1)(h).

Ibid s 3(1)(j).

Radin Margaret Jane , Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press, 1993) 7.

Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld) s 295.

The Code is created under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Regulations 2004 (Qld) s 4A.

Land Access Code (November 2010) 3.

Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1; Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1.

Kuhn Rick , ‘Xenophobic Racism and Class during the Howard Years’ (2009) 1 Marxist Interventions 53.

‘A basic doctrine of the land law is the doctrine of tenure … and it is a doctrine which could not be overturned without fracturing the skeleton which gives our land law its shape and consistency’: Mabo v Queensland [No 2] (1992) 175 CLR 1, [47].

Blackstone , above n 3, Ch 7.

Jenkins Melissa , ‘Bligh Slams Demonisation of Gas Industry’, Nine News (online), 31 August 2011 <http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8292519.

Blackstone , above n 3.

Radin , above n 23, 23.

de Paiva Duarte Fernanda ‘The Environment and Development Debate: Paradoxes, Polemics and Panaceas’ (1999) 8(2) Griffith Law Review 258, 261.

Burdon , above n 16, 21.

Ibid.

Hillman Mick , ‘Environmental Justice: A Crucial Link Between Environmentalism and Community Development?’ (2002) 37(4) Community Development Journal 349, 356.