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What do Labor's climate policies mean for the gas-led recovery and the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin?

We answer your questions by looking at where Scott Morrison's gas-fired recovery was supposed to start, in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.

ABC News · May 30, 2022

Sweetpea gas company begins fracking exploration on Beetaloo Basin station

A gas company has accessed a Northern Territory cattle station to begin exploration, against the wishes of pastoralists and some traditional owners.

ABC News · May 30, 2022

Pastoralist company to join forces with Beetaloo Basin traditional owners to resist gas exploration

Rallen has steadfastly opposes fracking on its land amid fossil fuel firm’s ‘unprecedented’ legal action to force access

The Guardian - AU · May 24, 2022

Fracking review suggests UK has softened precautionary principle since leaving EU – here's why it matters

The UK government recently conceded that the reasons for its 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing “have not gone away,” and there is “no compelling evidence” to support rethinking it. Better known as fracking, this industrial process injects millions of gallons of water underground at high pressure to release fossil gas…

The Conversation · May 5, 2022

Violence against activists grows as Colombia's pilot fracking projects progress

Colombia's anti-fracking activists are facing increased threats and violence as two investigative pilot projects to extract oil and gas from unconventional fields move forward, five campaigners said, with some forced to flee in fear for their lives.

Reuters · Apr 28, 2022

NT government referred to ICAC over its handling of fracking research contract in Beetaloo Basin

Darwin researchers believed they would be awarded a contract to study prawn-like species in a major Northern Territory gas field earmarked for fracking. A government decision not to do so has now been referred to ICAC.

ABC News · Apr 22, 2022