Traditional owners have given emotional evidence at a Senate inquiry into fracking in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.
Opening up parts of the Northern Territory for hydraulic-fracturing – or fracking – is a major part of the Morrison government’s ‘gas-led recovery’ which has been incentivised by $50 million of taxpayer money to explore the region.
One company, Empire Energy, has already been given $21 million in government grants to fund the drilling of three wells in the basin’s east. The company is a political donor and Liberal-linked, the senate inquiry has previously heard.