Gas companies and the NT Government want to build a massive new 700km long, 130m wide infrastructure corridor to transport fracked gas from the Beetaloo basin to Darwin Harbour for overseas export.
Tell gas pipeline company APA that you don’t want a major high pressure gas pipeline for export that will cut through bush blocks and pastoral properties, impede landholders, and risk land and water.
Fracking for shale gas is an extremely water-intensive practice that also uses a range of potentially dangerous chemicals. Major concerns are held for the rivers, wetlands and groundwater aquifers of the Northern Territory if gas fracking moves into full production.
Proposed fracking projects in the NT’s Beetaloo Basin threaten so many precious places – including the recharge area for Mataranka Hot Springs, the mighty Roper River, and Jurrkulu-Ijibarda (Lake Woods) and upstream areas. Read more.....
Climate threat
If the fracking industry proceeds to full production, experts predict that annual lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions will be as much as four times total Northern Territory annual emissions each year. Read more....
The fracking industry in the Northern Territory is still in the exploration stage but it is already causing harm. If it is allowed to proceed to full production, it will involve thousands of wells, roads, pipelines and wastewater treatment, spreading out and industrialising these precious landscapes. Read more.....
Almost $2 billion (and possibly up to $3.5 billion) of taxpayer funds has been allocated by the Federal Government to develop a gas processing, plastics and petrochemical manufacturing hub at Middle Arm in Darwin Harbour that would use fracked gas from the Territory. Read more.....