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Poppy Johnston

BIZARRE: Huge questions over tax rebates for gas exploration - What They Never Told You

Concerns over water and gas emissions have driven opposition to fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Taxpayer-funded research and development incentives topping $44 million for a single gas company have critics calling for the fossil fuel industry to be excluded like gambling and tobacco.

Designed to spur business innovation, the R&D tax offset scheme already explicitly bars "prospecting, exploring or drilling for minerals or petroleum".

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