{"id":869,"date":"2023-05-04T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:07:13","slug":"lisa-mills-getting-closure-mining-rehabilitation-reform-in-queensland-and-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/2023\/lisa-mills-getting-closure-mining-rehabilitation-reform-in-queensland-and-western-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Mills: Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Lisa Mills: Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft wp-image-870 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/Lisa-Mills-2020-400x400-1-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-870\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SPPA Associate Professor, Lisa Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SPPA Professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/lisa-mills\/\">Lisa Mills<\/a>\u2018 paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.exis.2022.101097\">Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia<\/a>\u201d was published in&nbsp;<em>The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.exis.2022.101097&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"highlights\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reform to address mining legacies pursued in two Australian states, Western Australia and Queensland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both states replaced bond system with public assurance systems; however, Queensland\u2019s system was more risk-averse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"abstract\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Orphaned, abandoned and inadequately rehabilitated mines have left of legacy of social, economic, and environmental risk. The failure of mine rehabilitation in Australia has become a policy issue in the last decade, with the two major mining states, Western Australia and Queensland, introducing reforms to their regulatory and financial assurance regimes in order to reduce the financial risk to the state. While similar reforms were introduced in both states, Queensland\u2019s regime was more stringent in terms of reducing the risk to the state. This paper, which is based on analysis of government documents and legislation, as well as interviews with government, industry, and environmental group representatives in the two states, evaluates the two states\u2019 regulatory changes through the lens of law and economics, and explains the reasons for the different policy decisions using Kingdon\u2019s streams model. It argues that Queensland\u2019s reform was more stringent because of the focusing events driving the reform; the political orientation of the government in power; and the organization responsible for developing policy options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.exis.2022.101097\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPPA Professor&nbsp;Lisa Mills\u2018 paper \u201cGetting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia\u201d was published in&nbsp;The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.exis.2022.101097&nbsp; Highlights Abstract Orphaned, abandoned and inadequately rehabilitated mines have left of legacy of social, economic, and environmental risk. The failure of mine rehabilitation in Australia has become a policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}