641Site closing directions to current holders of greenhouse gas injection licences

641 Site closing directions to current holders of greenhouse gas injection licences

(a) an identified greenhouse gas storage formation is specified in a greenhouse gas injection licence; and

(b) operations for the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation have been carried on under the licence; and

(c) the Minister is satisfied that operations for the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation have ceased; and

(d) any of the following conditions is satisfied—

(i) an application has been made for a site closing certificate in relation to the identified greenhouse gas storage formation;

(ii) the licensee has breached the requirement imposed by section 415(1) to make an application for a site closing certificate in relation to the identified greenhouse gas storage formation;

(iii) the licensee has not complied with a direction under section 416(1) to make an application for a site closing certificate in relation to the identified greenhouse gas storage formation.

(2) The Minister may, by written notice given to the registered holder of the licence, direct the holder to do any or all of the following things within the period specified in the notice—

(i) remove, or cause to be removed, from the licence area all property brought into that area by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the licence; or

(b) to plug or close off, to the satisfaction of the Minister, all wells made in the licence area, whether or not those wells were made by a person engaged or concerned in those operations;

(c) to provide, to the satisfaction of the Minister, for the conservation and protection of the natural resources in the licence area;

(d) to make good, to the satisfaction of the Minister, any damage to the seabed or subsoil in the licence area (whether or not caused by any person engaged or concerned in those operations);

(e) to carry out such operations as are specified in the notice for the monitoring of the behaviour of a greenhouse gas substance stored in the identified greenhouse gas storage formation concerned;

(f) to undertake such activities as are specified in the notice for the purpose of—

(i) eliminating; or

(ii) mitigating; or

(iii) managing; or

(iv) remediating—

the risk that a greenhouse gas substance injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation will have a significant adverse impact on—

(v) navigation; or

(vi) fishing; or