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Call for federal action over NT water plan

Hydrologists and environmentalists want the federal government to intervene over a massive NT government groundwater extraction plan linked to gas fracking.

AAP · Dec 13, 2022

NT chief minister says states, Commonwealth must help offset emissions to obtain Beetaloo Basin gas

Natasha Fyles says the federal government and states with gas shortages must work with the Northern Territory if new supplies from the Beetaloo Basin are to be unlocked and all carbon emissions offset as promised.

ABC News · Dec 7, 2022

Inside the 14-Year Battle to Secure a Water Line for Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Long-suffering residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, feel cautiously hopeful after Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announces plea deal with natural gas company.

Capital & Main · Dec 6, 2022

Watch: Boris Johnson promises support for Sunak but warns against backsliding on net zero

Boris Johnson warned Tories against going soft on climate change targets as he suggested that rising temperatures in Westminster may have contributed to his ousting. The former prime minister dismissed the “nonsense” of calls to resume fracking and return to fossil fuels in response to the soaring energy prices triggered…

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2022

Labour Facebook ads attack red wall Tory MPs in drive to swing voters

New social media drive targets Conservatives’ failure to ban fracking, rising mortgage costs, and direct action taken by Just Stop Oil protesters

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2022

Antrim and Newtownabbey 'betrayed' by MP Paul Girvan's fracking vote says councillor

The council has now voted against oil and gas exploration, extraction or fracking

Belfast Live · Nov 1, 2022

‘No evidence MPs were bullied,’ says report into fracking vote chaos

Review acknowledges shouting and ‘intemperate language’ but says chaotic scenes due to confusion over nature of vote

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2022

Commons inquiry finds 'no evidence of bullying' on night of chaotic fracking vote

AN inquiry into the behaviour of members of the Conservative Party on the night of a key vote on fracking has found there was “no evidence of…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 1, 2022

Public order bill: new law is designed to stop climate protests – but it could actually give activists a legal tool

The UK’s environmental movement has a long history of using protest as a strategy. Disruption is often at the heart of this, either disrupting infrastructure projects themselves in an attempt to stop them going ahead (roads, fracking sites), or targeting existing infrastructure (fuel depots, airport runways or bridges) to disrupt…

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2022

DUP has 'no official position' on fracking says Edwin Poots after DUP MPs voted against UK ban

Jim Shannon and Paul Girvan sided with the Conservatives to vote again a Labour motion to ban fracking

Belfast Live · Oct 30, 2022