SMH: Plibersek intervenes in giant ‘climate bomb’ gas project

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will force controversial gas fracking projects in Australia’s far north to undergo tough environmental checks, as the federal government brawls with political opponents and miners over its nature law reforms.

Read more November 05, 2024 4:23 PM

Guardian: Proposed powers to exempt NT projects from environmental assessments criticised as ‘terrifying’ and ‘authoritarian’

The newly elected Northern Territory government wants to grant itself sweeping new powers to exempt major projects from environmental assessments in a move described by conservationists and Indigenous groups as authoritarian and anti-democratic.

Read more November 05, 2024 4:21 PM

Market Forces: Traditional Owners, health leaders: 17,000 demand APA stop backing fracking

Thursday 24 October: Traditional Owners, leading doctors and scientists have joined over 17,000 people, environment and human rights organisations, to sign a letter calling on APA Group to end its plans to build a pipeline enabling dangerous gas fracking in the Northern Territory.

Read more November 05, 2024 4:19 PM

ABC PM: Calls to axe NT gas pipeline

A group of traditional owners, doctors, scientists and investors have called on energy Infrastructure company APA to end it's plan to build a pipeline in the Beetaloo basin in the Northern Territory.

APA plans to build the pipeline, which would connect pilot gas fracking projects in the Basin to Darwin and the east coast. 

Read more October 25, 2024 12:13 PM

Katherine Times: Another controversial Beetaloo deal signed

The NT Government has signed a deal with US gas company Empire Energy to buy fracked gas from the Beetaloo Basin from a proposed expanded drilling project which is yet to receive Ministerial approval.

Read more August 01, 2024 1:41 PM

SBS News: ‘A more dangerous future': Experts condemn Australia's new gas strategy

The Labor government says it can better achieve net zero by expanding the gas sector. A chorus of critics reject their claims.

Read more May 10, 2024 2:59 PM