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The Northern Territory government has lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing of onshore gas that will open up more than half of the territory’s land mass to the controversial practice.
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An ongoing commitment to fracking in the South-East “completely undermines” the Weatherill Government’s “leadership” on renewables, environmental campaigners claim.
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Australia’s energy debate needs to consider mounting evidence that unconventional gas extraction poses a serious risk to human health, argues David Shearman.
The Prime Minister’s prescription to drive down power prices has put the Coalition Government in direct conflict with the South Australian Liberals over a key element of the state’s energy future.
The state’s biggest company has fired a rearguard shot at the Liberals’ fracking moratorium, arguing that the gas industry is potentially 20 times more effective in tackling climate change than the nation’s combined renewable energy projects.
The state’s peak business lobby has lamented the Liberal Opposition’s south-east fracking moratorium as a policy “more aligned with the Greens” than a party of business.
