The Latest Breaking News from Beetaloo Basin

Buried deep in the Beetaloo Basin, it's estimated there is enough shale gas to power Australia for 300 years if the industry can work out how to frack it safely. Now, the industry is considering re-injecting wastewater into deep saline aquifers.

Sweetpea Petroleum, a company awarded $7.5 million of taxpayer money under a Coalition government program subsidising exploration wells in the Beetaloo Basin, could be found in contempt of the Senate for failing to appear at a federal Senate inquiry into the grants program.

Politicians, environmentalists, traditional owners and gas company representatives will be in Darwin for a public hearing into the Beetaloo Basin. Here's what it's all about.

A legal fight is brewing between cattle producers opposed to fracking and a mining company that is looking to explore for gas in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.

The Australian government's decision to sanction a Russian billionaire has revealed an unexpected link between the war in Ukraine and the remote Northern Territory.

Australia imposed sanctions on Friday on two Russian oligarchs with links to its mining industry, one of them a billionaire with an investment connection to Rio Tinto's Gladstone alumina refinery joint venture.

Taylor says Australia has ‘kept our foot on the accelerator’ when it comes to supply of oil and gas

Resources Minister Keith Pitt has reissued millions of dollars in grants to a fracking company searching for gas in the Beetaloo Basin, just months after a Federal Judge ruled them invalid.

Decision to give grants to Liberal-linked Empire Energy for NT exploration prompts anger among environment and Indigenous groups