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Climate Change Minister says jurisdictions outside NT will help offset Beetaloo gas fracking emissions

Chris Bowen says offsetting Beetaloo Basin gas emissions in Australia is a "cross-border issue".  (ABC News: Ed Reading, file)

Federal Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has indicated jurisdictions outside the Northern Territory will be required to help offset carbon emissions from fracked gas. 

It comes weeks after the NT government approved a full-scale fracking industry in the Beetaloo Basin, an enormous shale gas field about 500 kilometres south-east of Darwin. 

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