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Infrastructure Bill [HL]
to be moved
in GRAND Committee
[Supplementary to the Sixth Marshalled List]
Before Clause 28
BARONESS WORTHINGTON
LORD DAVIES OF OLDHAM
Insert the following new Clause—
(1) The Secretary of State must by regulations require operators to meet certain
environmental monitoring obligations in respect of shale gas extraction.
(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) shall provide that—
(a) no shale gas extraction may take place at a site until the operator has
provided the Environment Agency or Scottish Environment
Protection Agency, as appropriate, with specified data about that
site in respect of the preceding 12 months, and
(b) the operator must continue to provide the Environment Agency or
Scottish Environment Protection Agency with specified data about
a site throughout the period in which shale gas extraction takes
place at that site.
(3) In subsection (2), “specified data” includes, but is not limited to, levels of
methane in the groundwater, ecological studies and surface water.
(4) Regulations under subsection (1) must be made by statutory instrument.
(5) A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) may
not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and
approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.”
Insert the following new Clause—
In Schedule 4 to the Energy Act 2013 (application and modification of
emissions limit duty), after paragraph 1(1)(b)(ii) insert—
“(iii) substantial pollution abatement equipment dealing
with oxides of sulphur, oxides of nitrogen, heavy
metal emissions or particles is fitted to the
generating station.””
[As amendments to the new clause amendment “Petroleum and geothermal energy: right to use deep-level
land” printed on sheet HL Bill 2-VI(c)]
LORD JENKIN OF RODING
Line 16, after second “of” insert “heat and”
BARONESS WORTHINGTON
LORD DAVIES OF OLDHAM
Line 16, at end insert—
“(6) No later than 6 months after the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State
must, in consultation with the Committee on Climate Change, publish a
report on fugitive green-house gas emissions from on-shore energy
extraction in the UK.
(7) The report must include proposals for the measurement, monitoring,
reporting and managing of existing and future fugitive emissions.”
In the Title
BARONESS KRAMER
Line 10, after “facilities;” insert “to make provision for underground access to
deep-level land for the purposes of exploiting petroleum or deep geothermal
energy;”