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.
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.
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.
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.
New NT ‘One Stop Shop’ Big Developer laws: Beetaloo Basin Traditional Owners comment
WHAT: Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation, which represents native title holders from the NT’s Beetaloo Basin who wish to protect country, comments on new Territory laws proposed by the CLP, designed to side-step environmental and other laws which apply to fracking (“Major projects could be exempted from NT laws, and Minister ‘step in’ powers under future Territory Controller” NT News today).
Senate Inquiry Final Report Middle Arm: Beetaloo Basin Traditional Owners comment
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.
NT govt and Empire Beetaloo fracking deal wrong: Traditional Owners comment
Traditional Owners condemn NT Govt approval of Tamboran’s fracking plans
Call on Plibersek to scrutinise Tamboran’s water impacts using ‘water trigger’