Native title holders say they are insulted by the NT government's decision to approve a plan to drill nine new gas wells in the Beetaloo Basin before they've decided whether to support the project. But interim chief executive Jessie Shaecken said while the NLC had facilitated discussions between traditional owners and Empire Energy, that consultation was "inadequate" and the NT …
In short: Oil and gas companies may have been accessing taxpayer-funded money for fracking through a research and development scheme. The federal government says it will investigate whether millions of dollars of public funds that have been handed to oil and gas companies through a scheme that explicitly excludes fossil fuel exploration are "valid and legal". Oil and gas company …
The Greens are claiming the Beetaloo Basin gas project has been "derailed" through amendments to the federal government's safeguard mechanism. Key points: Australia's 215 largest-polluting facilities will be captured by the federal government's safeguard mechanism The Greens have secured amendments which will see all scope one Beetaloo Basin emissions offset The biggest player in the basin says similar rules have …
The federal government and states with gas shortages will have to work with the Northern Territory on offsetting emissions if new supplies from the Beetaloo Basin are to be unlocked, Territory Labor says. Key points: A new report says an agreement to ensure all emissions from fracking the Beetaloo Basin are offset is "still being worked out" Labor has said …
The gas company at the centre of a legal challenge to a multi-million-dollar subsidy program for fracking in the Beetaloo Basin has won full environmental approval to start work. Key points: Empire Energy has received full approvals to start controversial drilling in the Beetaloo Basin Environment Minister Eva Lawler says the gas company met all the necessary requirements Climate advocates …
Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says she is concerned by the "questionable" process behind the awarding of public grants to gas companies in the Beetaloo Basin and has urged her Labor colleagues to rethink their stance on the federal government program. Key points: Senator McCarthy wanted her party to vote with the Greens against a $50 million grants program A …