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Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts

Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts

by John Southalan | Sep 22, 2020 | Governance & Regulation, John Southalan, Mining & Energy, Uncategorized

Note summarising ‘Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts’ which were endorsed by the OECD Development Centre in February 2020 In February 2020 the OECD endorsed a framework, aimed at governments and investors, for the content and negotiation of...
Tortious Liability for Subsidiaries

Tortious Liability for Subsidiaries

by John Southalan | Aug 17, 2020 | John Southalan, Mining & Energy

This paper summarises two cases, currently underway, concerning parent company tortious liability for subsidiaries. In the United Kingdom, Zambian villagers are suing Vedanta Resources plc and in Canada, Eritrean citizens are suing Nevsun Resources Ltd. The paper...
Clarifying the Current Role of a social licence in its legal and political context: An examination of mining in Western Australia

Clarifying the Current Role of a social licence in its legal and political context: An examination of mining in Western Australia

by Joe Fardin | Apr 24, 2020 | Governance & Regulation, Joe Fardin, Mining & Energy

Journal article examining how the social licence to operate (SLO) concept operates in practice in the context of mining Western Australia, in comparison to legal and political licences. Abstract: Despite growing prominence of the social licence to operate concept in...
Mining: International Developments with Domestic Significance

Mining: International Developments with Domestic Significance

by John Southalan | Mar 24, 2020 | Governance & Regulation, John Southalan, Mining & Energy

International legal developments have increasing relevance for mining operations and mining law. While regulation of the soil and its resources remains quintessentially domestic law, broader responsibilities for business and its value chains involves law beyond WA’s...
Regulation of the resources sector

Regulation of the resources sector

by John Southalan | Nov 7, 2019 | Environment, Governance & Regulation, Human Rights, Joe Fardin, John Southalan, Land Access, Mining & Energy, Native Title, Aboriginal Land & Communities

Members of Resources Law Network provided a submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Resources Sector Regulation. The submission identified issues regarding best-practice arrangements and urged a broadening scope of study. The full Resources Law Network...
WA and National Policy Guidance on Extractives Regulation

WA and National Policy Guidance on Extractives Regulation

by John Southalan | Oct 16, 2019 | Environment, Governance & Regulation, John Southalan, Mining & Energy, Uncategorized

Three publications were issued in 2018 about the regulation and future of the extractives sector, by the Western Australian and Commonwealth Governments. This article summarises the contents of these documents and examines implications. These include the advances made...
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