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PETROLEUM RESOURCES ACT.

País/Territorio
Canadá
Subdivisión territorial
Québec
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2016 (2019)
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Medio ambiente gen., Recursos minerales
Palabra clave
Emisiones Eco-productos/ecoprocesos Gobierno local Hidrocarburos Gas natural Negocios/industria/corporaciones Autorización/permiso Registro
Área geográphica
Americas, Ártico, Asia y Pacifico, Pacífico Oriental, América del Norte, Atlántico Norte
Resumen

The purpose of this Act is to govern the development of petroleum resources on land and in bodies of water while ensuring the safety of persons and property, environmental protection and optimal recovery of the resource, in compliance with the law as to ownership of immovables and in compliance with the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets set by the Government. Petroleum, underground reservoirs and brine form part of the domain of the State. All work performed under this Act must be performed in accordance with generally recognized best practices for ensuring the safety of persons and property, environmental protection and optimal recovery of the resource. A person who discovers an uninterrupted flow of gas on their land must notify the Minister and the local municipality in which the land is situated in writing and with dispatch. A person who discovers a well on their land must notify the Minister in writing with dispatch. The Minister enters in the land register a declaration of the well’s location. The declaration is registered in the register of real rights of State resource development and, as applicable, in the file relating to the immovable affected by the well, either in the index of immovables or in the register of public service networks and immovables situated in territory without a cadastral survey. No one may explore for petroleum or underground reservoirs, produce or store petroleum or produce brine without holding an exploration licence, a production licence, a storage licence or an authorization to produce brine, as applicable. The exploration, production and storage rights conferred by a licence and the right to produce brine conferred by an authorization are immovable real rights. Ownership of such immovable real rights is separate from ownership of the land to which they pertain. Use of the land, before or after such a right is awarded, by a third person does not in any case confer a right to compensation on its holder. The same holds for the transfer or awarding of rights in lands in the domain of the State.

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