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Santos — Investor Presentation (August 2013)
14 slides from Santos's investor presentation, Aug 1, 2013
Slide 1: Bioregional Assessments: Meeting with AGL
BIOREGIONAL Providing scientific water resource information associated with coal ASSESSMENTS seam gas and large coal mines Office of Water Science Meeting with AGL – 1 August 2013 A scientific collaboration between the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; Bur
Slide 2: Purpose of this meeting
Purpose of this meeting • Provide an overview of bioregional assessments • Context of the program • Where will bioregional assessments be undertaken • What are bioregional assessments • What has been done to-date • Methodology for undertaking bioregional assessments
Slide 3: Program Overview
Program Overview • Produce bioregional assessments for six priority regions by 30 June 2016, to underpin advice from the IESC and decision making by regulators on development proposals. • Deliver knowledge and information products incrementally to build confidence, transparency and community underst
Slide 4: Context for bioregional assessments
Context for bioregional assessments • Recognised need for better baseline information • Legislation– amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 • Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining (IESC) and Office of Water Science (OW
Slide 5: Bioregional Assessment
Bioregional Assessment a scientific analysis of ecology, hydrology, geology and hydrogeology of a bioregion with explicit assessment of potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining development on water resources
Slide 6: Focus to date
Focus to date • Bioregional Assessment Methodology • NRM assets data collection • Consortium - Office of Water Science, Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and Geoscience Australia • Information platform • Research projects
Slide 7: Bioregional Assessment Methodology
Bioregional Assessment Methodology • Generic best practice approach • Transparent and publically available products – released over duration of assessment • Products expected to be enduring ie able to be repeated over time • Availability of data and models define what can be undertaken and quantifie
Slide 8: Bioregional Assessment Priority Areas
Office of Water Science Bioregional Assessment Priority Areas
Slide 9: Water-dependent assets Receptors
Receptors Water-dependent assets Receptors
Slide 10: Bioregional Assessment Methodology
Bioregional Assessment Methodology
Slide 11: Materiality
Materiality ‘Concept of Materiality’ – potential impacts on receptors that are identified as important based on spatial relationships such as scale, proximity and connectivity Other filters – stakeholder agreed sub-setting, aggregating and removing of non-materially affected assets and receptors
Slide 12: Uncertainty analyses are integral
Uncertainty analyses are integral • ‘Single number’ assessments of impacts will always be contested by parties with opposing interests. − Incorporate levels of certainty in model output and their impacts. • Decisions made on scientific advice require some measure of certainty associated with this ad
Slide 13: Your thoughts or questions?
Your thoughts or questions?
Slide 14: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities w www.environment.gov.au/coal-seam- gas-mining/