Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009

The Minister may approve or refuse to approve the proposed program.

In deciding whether to approve the proposed program the Minister must consider each of the following—

the work program criteria and capability criteria and any special criteria that applied for deciding the application for the GHG permit;

the extent to which the current work program has been complied with;

any amendments made to the GHG permit or its current work program and the reasons for the changes;

any GHG storage viability report or independent viability assessment for the GHG permit.

Also, if the GHG permit was granted in response to a tender, any other work program proposed by other tenderers for the permit must be considered.

However, subsection (3) applies only to the extent the other program includes the period of the proposed plan.