This document amends the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 to prohibit the exploration for and extraction of onshore petroleum by means of hydraulic fracturing. The decision is notably motivated by climate change mitigation motivations.
The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill of 2021 extends the ban to all licences for new oil and natural gas exploration.
Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Act 15/2017
Summary
Documents
Document
Topics 
Beta
Supporting documentation
Bill
About this law
Year
2017
Most recent update
06/07/2017
Geography
Response areas
Mitigation
Sectors
Energy
Topics
, ,  
 Topics mentioned most in this law  Beta
See how often topics get mentioned in this law and view specific passages of text highlighted in each document. Accuracy is not 100%. Learn more
Group
Topics
Risk
Impacted group
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Note
The summary of this document was written by researchers at the Grantham Research Institute . If you want to use this summary, please check terms of use for citation and licensing of third party data.