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We would like to acknowledge the University of the Free State and Water Research Commis‐ sion of South Africa for funding. Dr. L. Chevallier for the geological information and assistance in strata characterisation.

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**Chapter 11**

**Regulatory Nirvana for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation**

Government are challenged to deploy trustworthy regulation to enable profitable and envi‐ ronmentally sustainable unconventional petroleum projects. A key activity under scrutiny during the development of these projects is hydraulic fracture stimulation. Regulatory 'Nir‐

**•** Public access to details of significant risks and reliable research to backup risk management

**•** Timely notice of entry with sufficient operational details to effectively inform stakeholders;

**•** Potentially affected people and organisations can object to land access - without support for

**•** Risks are reduced to low or as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) while also meeting

and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

© 2013 Goldstein et al.; licensee InTech. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

© 2013 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution,

vana' for unconventional projects and conventional projects alike entails:

**•** Regulators and licensees with trustworthy competence and capacity;

strategies so the basis for regulation is contestable anytime, everywhere;

**•** Regulatory certainty and efficiency without taint of capture;

**•** Effective stakeholder consultation well-ahead of land access;

**•** Fair and expeditious dispute resolution processes;

**•** Fair compensation to affected land-users;

community expectations for net outcomes;

Barry Goldstein, Michael Malavazos, Alexandra Wickham, Michael Jarosz,

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/56381

**•** Pragmatic licence tenure;

vexatious objections;

**Abstract**

Dominic Pepicelli, Mieka Webb and Dale Wenham

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter
