NIT: Traditional Owners fear new NT law will create gas exploitation free-for-all
Canberra Times: Santos ends Darwin Festival sponsorship
Gas company Santos has ended its sponsorship of the Darwin Festival following a campaign by environmental activists and traditional owners.
ABC News: Pastoralists, traditional owners, environmental groups, call for moratorium on NT water licences
The Northern Territory government's management of water could "run rivers dry" and risk the livelihoods of future generations, a traditional owner has said during a major water conference in Darwin this week.
ABC News: Oil and gas industry will no longer get free water in NT, questions remain for other big industries
For the first time, major industries in the Northern Territory will be charged for the water they use, in a policy shift the Environment Minister says is aimed at "bigger industries", not "small businesses and small farmers trying to make a go of it".
NIT: Origin’s Beetaloo and Kimberley gas exit hailed by environmentalists
A group of Traditional Owners and environmentalists have hailed Origin Energy’s withdrawal from the Beetaloo Basin and the Kimberley.
ABC: Tamboran Resources buys Origin Energy's Beetaloo Basin gas exploration stakes
A company facing fines for refusing to front a senate committee investigating gas subsidies has overnight become the biggest player in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
Conversation: In a win for Traditional Owners, Origin is walking away from the Beetaloo Basin. But the fight against fracking is not over
What a difference six months makes. Before the federal election, the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory was to have spearheaded Australia’s “gas-led recovery”.
ABC: Origin Energy backs out of investment into on-shore gas exploration in Beetaloo Basin
Gas giant Origin Energy is abandoning plans to frack for gas in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.
Guardian: Origin Energy to quit Beetaloo gas project but green groups warn environmental threat remains
Origin Energy will sell its stake in its Beetaloo Basin gas project at a loss and review all its other exploration permits in a move that will distance it from an environmental controversy and end its association with sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
AFR: Origin accelerates zero-emission push with exit from Beetaloo
Origin Energy will divest its near-80 per cent stake in the Beetaloo Basin and explore exiting nearly all its upstream gas exploration permits as it accelerates its push to renewable energy.