Resources Minister Keith Pitt has reissued millions of dollars in grants to a fracking company searching for gas buried deep in the Beetaloo Basin, just months after a federal judge ruled the grants invalid and "legally unreasonable".
The Environment Centre NT launched a legal challenge in July last year, questioning the lawfulness of the Minister's decision to grant up to $21 million of taxpayer money to Imperial Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Empire Energy, while they were the subject of court proceedings.