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Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin

$Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin$

Environmentalists say appointment of Liberty Energy’s Chris Wright highlights US interests ‘driving fracking’ in Northern Territory

Is the Beetaloo gas basin going to damage our water resources? Plibersek has asked experts to find out

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The Greens and crossbenchers are urging Plibersek to use the expanded ‘water trigger’ powers but she has vowed to listen to ‘independent scientists’

Pressure mounts on Tanya Plibersek to assess water impacts of NT Beetaloo Basin fracking project

NT government’s environmental management plan approval of Tamboran gas development spurs calls for federal minister to step in

Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

In announcing Australia’s support for fossil gas all the way to 2050 and beyond, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pushed his government’s commitment to net zero even further out of reach.

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Great fracking day: territory inks mega gas deal

The NT will buy gas fracked from the Beetaloo basin in a nine-year deal the government claims will boost the territory's economy and ensure cheaper power bills.

NT government deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company labelled ‘carbon bomb’

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Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide ‘competitively priced gas’ for the territory

Traditional owners gather to fight fracking gas hub

$Traditional owners gather to fight fracking gas hub$

Traditional owners will join a roundtable meeting on Wednesday as part of an inquiry into a controversial NT gas project they claim threatens cultural heritage.

Beetaloo 'massive sinkhole' for taxpayers, investors

A vast source of onshore gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG.

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Beetaloo 'massive sinkhole' for taxpayers, investors

A vast source of onshore gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG.

Woman protests as fracking rig heads for Beetaloo Basin

$Woman protests as fracking rig heads for Beetaloo Basin$

A big drilling rig is on its way to the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory as protests are held against the operation.

Beetaloo Basin cattle company loses Supreme Court bid to stop fracking exploration

$Beetaloo Basin cattle company loses Supreme Court bid to stop fracking exploration$

A gas company will be able to continue exploration in the Beetaloo Basin after a cattle company's appeal to stop the activity was dismissed by the Northern Territory Supreme Court.

Proponents of fracking in the Beetaloo Basin welcome the Greens' safeguard mechanism amendments, say they create 'certainty'

$Proponents of fracking in the Beetaloo Basin welcome the Greens' safeguard mechanism amendments, say they create 'certainty'$

Fracking proponents say safeguard mechanism amendments have created certainty for the Beetaloo Basin.

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Activists launch legal challenge to Beetaloo fracking

Activists in Central Australia will ask the Supreme Court to review the NT government's decision to approve fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

Northern Territory faces legal challenge over approval of Tamboran drilling and fracking in Beetaloo basin

Central Australian Frack Free Alliance argues NT environment minister failed to properly consider Tamboran project’s impact

Tamboran Resources denies using 'intimidation' to access cattle station, fronts fracking senate inquiry

Tamboran Resources has fronted a senate inquiry into fracking in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, after acquiring Origin Energy's interests in the region last month.

Beetaloo Basin holds ‘Australia’s greatest emissions reduction opportunity’, inquiry hears

In remarks dismissed by environmentalists, gas company boss Joel Riddle said reserves were ‘critical’ to lowering greenhouse gas emissions

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In a win for Traditional Owners, Origin is walking away from the Beetaloo Basin. But the fight against fracking is not over

What a difference six months makes. Before the federal election, the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory was to have spearheaded Australia’s “gas-led recovery”. But Origin Energy this week announced it would sell its share of the basin project ahead of a wider exit from new gas ventures.

Australia should abandon goal to limit global heating to 1.5C, says gas company eyeing Beetaloo Basin

Tamboran Resources, which received $7.5m to explore Beetaloo Basin, argues target may hinder ‘climate improving’ gas projects

Fracker stops NT cattle station road work

A gas fracking company will scale back exploration work at a Northern Territory cattle station amid a legal battle to stop it accessing the property.

Pastoralist fights gas fracker access

The Northern Territory Supreme Court is hearing a cattle station owner's appeal against a decision giving a gas explorer access to its Beetaloo Basin property.

Gas fracker cuts NT cattle station fences

A Northern Territory cattle company alleges an onshore gas explorer has cut one of its station fences and forced its way onto the property.