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Infrastructure Bill [HL]
to be moved
in grand committee
[Supplementary to the Sixth Marshalled List]
[These amendments are in substitution for those printed on sheet HL Bill 2-VII(a)]
Before Clause 28
LORD DAVIES OF OLDHAM
BARONESS WORTHINGTON
Insert the following new Clause—
(1) No shale gas extraction may take place before the operator has measured
the baseline levels of methane in the groundwater over a 12 month period.
(2) After section 199(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991 (notice etc. of mining
operations which may affect water conservation) insert—
“(1A) Notices under subsection (1) must, in the case of shale gas
extraction, include baseline levels of methane in the groundwater.
(1B) Where a notice under subsection (1) includes baseline levels of
methane in the groundwater, the Agency must issue a notice under
subsection (2) requiring the levels of methane in the groundwater
to be measured over a 12 month period.””
Insert the following new Clause—
(1) All applications for planning permission to the relevant local authority
(including for sites of less than one hectare) for the purpose of extracting
shale gas must include—
(a) an Environmental Impact Assessment; and
(b) the well-by-well disclosure of—
(i) the composition of any hydraulic fluid to be employed; and
(ii) the quantity of such hydraulic fluid to be employed.
(2) In table 2 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental
Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011, after section 2(d)(iii) insert—
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“(iv) shale gas extraction works |
(iii) in relation to shale gas extraction, all areas of works, including under 1 hectare.” |
(3) The list of statutory consultees for applications for shale gas extraction shall
include the relevant local water company.”