WHAT: Response to news that Lock the Gate Alliance has launched the first legal challenge to fracking under the water trigger in Australia’s national environment laws. Lock the Gate Alliance is seeking an injunction from the Federal Court to prevent Tamboran’s Shenandoah project going ahead until the Federal Government assesses the impacts of the project on water under national environment laws.

A controversial gas project in the heart of the Northern Territory has been given the green light by the government.

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Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation, which represents native title holders from the NT's Beetaloo Basin who wish to protect Country, have responded to the draft Territory Co-ordinator Bill released Thursday, which they say is "designed to side-step environmental and other laws that apply to fracking".

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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).

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.