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Special Report: Understanding the opportunities and navigating the legal frameworks of distributed ledger technology and blockchain
Authored by a multidisciplinary team from Allens Blockchain Reaction is designed to assist business stakeholders decision makers and in-house counsel across a variety of sectors to understand the technology and how it is being used as well as navigate the regulatory and legal opportunities and ...
'Chain of Responsibility' amendments impose new environmental obligations in Queensland
The Queensland Parliament has passed the Chain of Responsibility Bill with important amendments prior to enactment The amending Act establishes a new regime under the States primary environmental legislation that exposes related bodies corporate executive officers financiers shareholders and a ...
LNG destination clauses under scrutiny by Japanese competition regulator
Part of the Japanese Ministry of Economy Trade and Industrys strategy for LNG market development which aims to achieve stability in LNG supply and lower prices is to abolish or relax destination clauses with the view that this would lead to lower prices through increased reselling and arbitrage ...
New Draft Wind Energy Planning Framework
The New South Wales Government has released its new Wind Energy Planning Framework with the aim of establishing a more efficient and consistent assessment and approval regime for wind energy projects and also addressing the concerns raised by stakeholders to the 2011 draft Guidelines The buffer zone ...
Introduction of the Emissions Reduction Fund Bill
The Federal Government has introduced into Parliament legislation for the establishment of its proposed Emissions Reduction Fund which will provide businesses with opportunities to enter into contracts under which the Government pays them for undertaking carbon abatement Partner Grant Anderson and ...
Parliament passes diverted profits tax legislation
Legislation to implement a diverted profits tax has passed the Federal Parliament ...
National Energy Guarantee - the emissions requirement in Australia's carbon policy landscape
Following the recent release of the National Energy Guarantee High Level Design Document Partner Jillian Button xand Lawyer Dale Straughen consider how the proposed emissions reduction requirement of the Guarantee will interact with Australias existing emissions reduction policies This article is ...
National Energy Guarantee - development of Emissions Requirement
Following the recent release of the National Energy Guarantee High Level Design Document Partner Anna Collyer and Senior Associate Karla Drinkwater report on the proposed Emissions Requirement of the National Energy Guarantee which seeks to lower emissions in keeping with international commitments ...
Preparing for the NEG's Reliability Guarantee - be alert, not alarmed
Following the recent release of the National Energy Guarantee High Level Design Document by the Energy Security Board Partner Anna Collyer and Associate Mark Leersnyder report on the proposed Reliability Guarantee component of the National Energy Guarantee which seeks to improve the supply and ...
Allens acts on significant capital raising to fund PNG gas acquisition
Allens has acted for Papua New Guinea's largest oil and gas exploration and development company Oil Search in the funding of its acquisition of a share of the largest undeveloped gas resource in PN ...