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Increased capacity at port of Port Hedland
The Pilbara Port Authority announced earlier this month that it will be increasing its capacity at the port of Port Hedland by 16% over the next 3 …
UNCITRAL Transparency Rules applied for the first time in investor-State arbitration
In September 2014, BSG Resources Limited initiated an international arbitration proceeding against the Republic of Guinea arising out of an alleged …
Parliamentary Inquiry Report into FIFO and other long distance commuting work practices in regional Queensland released
On 9 October 2015 the Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources Committee released its “Parliamentary Inquiry report into FIFO and other long …
Update - Innovative Resources Tenures Framework, Queensland
On 12 October 2015, Herbert Smith Freehills attended the Queensland Department of Natural Resources & Mines workshop on the Innovative Resources …
Amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) – Project and transactional implications
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) (Land Rights Act) has been recently amended to include a framework for reaching agreements with Aboriginal Land …
Mining and petroleum tenure reform in Queensland
Material changes are proposed to the tenures under which minerals and petroleum are explored for in Queensland. The Department of Natural Resources and …
Update on transparency reporting – compliance with EU reporting requirements by extractive companies on government payments is determined to be an acceptable substitute for Canada
In an earlier post we noted that the Canadian federal government had brought new legislation into force on 1 June 2015, the Extractive Sector …
Australian Income Tax bill introduced - tenement realignments and farm-ins/farm-outs
On 25 June 2015, the Australian Government introduced a tax bill (Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2015 Measures No 2) Bill 2015) to Parliament …
EU Parliament amends proposal on regulating importation and use of conflict minerals
On 20 May 2015, the EU Parliament adopted (by 402 votes to 118, with 171 abstentions) important amendments to a proposal for a Regulation of the European …
Transparency reporting – Canadian Act now in force (following UK and Norwegian legislation last year), further EU implementation and US still to come
Last week, the Canadian federal government brought new legislation into force, which establishes reporting requirements of payments made to governments …
Update on mineral royalty rates in Western Australia
No increase in mineral royalty rates in the 2015-16 State Budget The Western Australian Government (Government) has confirmed in the 2015-16 State …
Indonesia announces renegotiation of BITs
Since the Dutch government’s announcement last year that Indonesia had terminated the 1995 Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between those countries, …
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