Sustainable Energy Law - JURD7470
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8070
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Sustainable Energy Law will examine a number of controversial topics. In some respects there will be a focus on sustainable energy issues, which is a broader category than merely renewable sources. The repeal of the Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme and the attack on the Renewable Energy Target has left a legal and policy vacuum for sustainable energy in Australia.
The course will focus on the Australian context with specific emphasis on the planning law context in NSW. It will focus of all aspects of sustainable energy law.
The course will also provide an examination of the role of nuclear energy in Australia and Asia. It will examine the particular issues relating to the regulation and management of the nuclear industry.
The course will conclude by placing the development of sustainable energy in the Asian context to look at the development of sustainable energy in Asia. This will be contrasted with the dim future for sustainable energy in Australia following the repeal of the Clean Energy Act and associated legislation.
Main Topics
The course will focus on the Australian context with specific emphasis on the planning law context in NSW. It will focus of all aspects of sustainable energy law.
The course will also provide an examination of the role of nuclear energy in Australia and Asia. It will examine the particular issues relating to the regulation and management of the nuclear industry.
The course will conclude by placing the development of sustainable energy in the Asian context to look at the development of sustainable energy in Asia. This will be contrasted with the dim future for sustainable energy in Australia following the repeal of the Clean Energy Act and associated legislation.
Main Topics
- Introduction to Australia's renewable energy resources, current status of development and future prospects in a carbon constrained world;
- Overview of origins and development of sustainable energy law in Australia;
- Renewable energy law frameworks: the CPRS and sustainable energy target legislation;
- Other legislative and policy incentives for promotion of sustainable energy e.g feed-in tariffs;
- Renewable energy and regulation of the National Electricity Market
- Technology specific state based legislative regimes: for wind energy and geothermal energy;
- Emerging legal regimes for off-shore sustainable energy (wind, wave and tidal energy)
- Legal issues concerning bio-fuels
- Planning approval, environmental impact assessment and sustainable energy projects
- Property law issues associated with renewable energy projects including regulating rights to solar access
- Consumer protection laws and green power schemes.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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