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Gas from the Beetaloo Basin will only pour fuel on the climate change fire

Gas is now flowing from the Beetaloo Basin, a vast fossil fuel project roughly 500 kilometres southeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned

Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo

The Guardian - AU

Resource firms hit the gas on controversial project

Gas explorers and pipeline layers have enthusiastically outlined the vast potential of the controversial Beetaloo gas field at a resources conference.

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Controversial gas pipeline a step closer

Streamlined environmental assessments of a pipeline linking a territory's gas field with the east coast have been granted to the company proposing to build it.

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Fracking protests prompt police presence at conference

Protesters plan to target a resources conference, prompting a strong police presence, after gas from a controversial fracking project was switched on.

AAP

‘Gateway to full-scale fracking’: Santos could drill for new gas in Northern Territory within weeks

Finocchiaro government grants approval for up to 12 wells in Beetaloo basin

The Guardian - AU

Tamboran Resources Q3 Earnings Call Highlights

Tamboran Resources (NYSE:TBN) said it remains on track to deliver first gas from its Beetaloo Basin pilot project in the third quarter of the calendar year, as the company highlighted farm-out activity, recent financing and upcoming drilling and stimulation work during its fiscal 2026 third-quarter

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Gas deal to unlock wasted resource for domestic market

A deal has been signed to supply natural gas which is usually flared off into the air to meet the needs of domestic users and avoid power outages.

AAP

$Fear Santos gas plan may start fracking rush that poses ‘major risk’ to NT water supply$

Fear Santos gas plan may start fracking rush that poses ‘major risk’ to NT water supply

Fossil fuel company plans to expand exploration in Beetaloo basin

The Guardian - AU

Federal Labor ministers at odds over contentious NT gas pipeline decision, internal document shows

Exclusive: Agriculture minister Julie Collins and Indigenous affairs minister Malarndirri McCarthy expressed concern over Sturt Plateau pipeline’s construction

The Guardian - AU

Coalition nuclear plan hides a 2bn tonne ‘carbon bomb’ that puts net zero by 2050 out of reach, new analysis shows

Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean says Dutton’s energy proposal is equivalent to adding ‘two Beetaloo basins’ worth of emissions to atmosphere

The Guardian - AU

$Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin$

Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin

Environmentalists say appointment of Liberty Energy’s Chris Wright highlights US interests ‘driving fracking’ in Northern Territory

The Guardian - AU

Unisuper members call for divestment in NT gas

Climate scientists and academics have called on UniSuper to uphold its climate commitments and denounce investment in the Beetaloo Basin.

AAP

'Gas cowboys' reined in by trigger-happy minister

The NT government has lambasted the federal environment minister for launching an inquiry into environmental impacts of fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

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Scientific probe into controversial gas projects

Gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory will be assessed by an independent group of scientists, amid concerns over any impact to water.

The Guardian - AU

Is the Beetaloo gas basin going to damage our water resources? Plibersek has asked experts to find out

The Greens and crossbenchers are urging Plibersek to use the expanded ‘water trigger’ powers but she has vowed to listen to ‘independent scientists’

The Guardian - AU

Pressure mounts on Tanya Plibersek to assess water impacts of NT Beetaloo Basin fracking project

NT government’s environmental management plan approval of Tamboran gas development spurs calls for federal minister to step in

AAP

Great fracking day: territory inks mega gas deal

The NT will buy gas fracked from the Beetaloo basin in a nine-year deal the government claims will boost the territory's economy and ensure cheaper power bills.

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The Guardian - AU

NT government deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company labelled ‘carbon bomb’

Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide ‘competitively priced gas’ for the territory

Newcastle Herald

Beetaloo 'massive sinkhole' for taxpayers, investors

A vast source of onshore gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG.

AAP

Beetaloo 'massive sinkhole' for taxpayers, investors

A vast source of onshore gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG.

The Conversation

The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires amid the intensifying climate crisis, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.

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Beetaloo 'climate bomb' cannot be offset, inquiry told

Independent modelling suggests governments have underestimated emissions from the Northern Territory's proposed Beetaloo Basin project and a Darwin Harbour hub.

The Guardian - AU

Emissions of Beetaloo Basin gas projects ‘significantly underestimated’ by government, analysis finds

Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’

The Guardian - AU

Methane bubbles in groundwater cast doubts over Beetaloo basin fracking approval, scientists say

Experts warn the NT government has ‘significant and critical gaps in the knowledge base underpinning fracking approvals’

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