94Content of injection and monitoring plan

94 Content of injection and monitoring plan

An injection and monitoring plan must include—

(a) details of the activities that the licence holder intends to conduct and the proposed dates by which those activities are to be completed; and

(b) details of physical, hydrological, geological, chemical and biological conditions of the land in the licence area for the purposes of developing a baseline for managing and monitoring any change to those conditions; and

(c) details of the nature of the greenhouse gas substance to be injected into the underground geological formation; and

(d) a verifiable estimate of the storage capacity of the underground geological storage formation; and

(e) a verifiable estimate of the rate and volume of greenhouse gas substance that is proposed to be injected; and

(f) a description of the proposed injection and monitoring techniques; and

(g) an assessment of the potential leakage and migration path of an injected greenhouse gas substance from the underground geological storage formation; and

(h) an assessment of the effect any leakage a greenhouse gas substance might have on public health, the environment and other resources; and

(i) an assessment of the likelihood of leakage of a greenhouse gas substance, including leakage arising—

(i) during the injection and monitoring of a greenhouse gas substance; and

(ii) after the right to inject a greenhouse gas substance has been surrendered; and

(iii) after a greenhouse gas injection and monitoring licence has been surrendered; and

(j) a monitoring and verification plan prepared in accordance with the regulations and detailing how the behaviour of any stored greenhouse gas substance will be monitored; and

(k) a risk management plan prepared in accordance with the regulations; and

(l) an estimate of the cost of carrying out the monitoring and verification activities after the greenhouse gas injection and monitoring licence has been surrendered; and

(m) any other prescribed matters.