This course focuses on current and emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues at each stage of the resource discovery, acquisition, extraction, and closure process. Students will improve their understanding of land and resource rights; aboriginal rights; corporate governance and social responsibility; climate change, environmental and resource regulation; permitting; community engagement and social license to operate; capital raising and disclosure obligations. This is a core course of the Master of Earth and Energy Resources Leadership program.
This course focuses on current and emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues at each stage of the resource discovery, acquisition, extraction, and closure process. Students will improve their understanding of land and resource rights; aboriginal rights; corporate governance and social responsibility; climate change, environmental and resource regulation; permitting; community engagement and social license to operate; capital raising and disclosure obligations. This is a core course of the Master of Earth and Energy Resources Leadership program.