Table Of Content‘This book presents an excellent account of the socio-regulatory environment
in seven shale gas holding countries, highlighting the intractable tension
between securing energy supply and a sustainable habitat. More importantly
even, Madeline Taylor and Tina Hunter have written an absolutely timely
book on a crucial aspect of the unconventional gas conundrum: how agri-
cultural landowners can be empowered vis-à-vis the gas industry, and how the
regulatory governance makes a difference. This book will be an invaluable
resource for both scholars and practitioners alike.’
— Andreas Goldthau, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
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Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas
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Extraction Con icts
Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the
legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘tempor-
ary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a
temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates a regulatory paradox.
On one hand, unconventional gas activities create energy security, national
wealth and a bourgeoning export industry. On the other, agricultural land and
agriculturalists may be significantly disadvantaged by unconventional gas activ-
ities potentially producing permanent damage to non-renewable fertile soils
and spoiling the underground water tables. Thus, threatening future food
security and food sovereignty.
This book explores the socio-regulatory dimensions of coexistence between
agriculturalandonshoreunconventionalgaslandusesinthejurisdictionswiththe
highest concentration of proven unconventional gas reserves – Australia, Canada,
theUSA,theUK,France,PolandandChina.Inexploringthedifferingregulatory
standpoints of unconventional gas land uses on productive farming land in the
chosen jurisdictions, this book provides an original three-part categorisation of
regulatory approaches addressing the coexistence of agricultural land and uncon-
ventionalgasnamely:adaptivemanagement,precautionaryand,finally,statism.It
offers a timely and topical approach to socio-legal natural resource governance
theory based on the participation, transparency and empowerment for agri-
cultural landholders, examininghowdiffering frameworkssuch asthe collective
bargaining framework can create equitable and sustainable contractual arrange-
ments with unconventional gas companies.
Madeline Taylor is currently an Academic Fellow at The University of
Sydney Law School, Australia.
Tina Hunter is the Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy
Law (AUCEL), UK, and the Professor in Petroleum Law at the University of
Aberdeen.
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Con icts
A Global Socio-Legal Perspective
Madeline Taylor and Tina Hunter
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
Foreword x
Preface and acknowledgements xi
Acronyms and abbreviations xii
1 Introduction 1
PART I
Socio-regulatory theories related to unconventional gas
extraction and agricultural activities 13
2 Natural resource governance and land use conflict 15
3 The value of agricultural land: The right to food, food security and
food sovereignty 27
4 Theories of adaptive management, precautionary principle and the
statist approach 42
PART II
Socio-regulatory approaches in a comparative context 67
5 Queensland, Australia 69
6 British Columbia, Canada 96
7 United Kingdom 116
8 New York State, USA 135
9 France 154
viii Contents
10 Poland 166
11 China 184
PART III
Socio-regulatory responses and conclusions 203
12 Collectivisation and collective bargaining 205
13 Conclusion 221
References 228
Cases, legislation and treaties 251
Index 256
Illustrations
Figures
5.1 Overarching unconventional gas regulatory framework of
Queensland 72
5.2 Relationship of RIDA process and GC in Queensland 79
6.1 Relationship of non-farm use approvals ALR process and OGC
in British Columbia 105
6.2 Overarching UG regulatory framework of British Columbia 108
7.1 Permissioning process 128
Table
10.1 Summary of law regulating shale gas licencing, permitting and
environmental control 173
