More extremist crap20 Nov 2020 10:34
Landowners meet to tackle ‘terrible’ Tennant gas fracking pipeline plan
Nov 20 2020
Updated 14 hours ago
Tash Adams
LANDOWNERS from across the Territory met in Katherine this week to brainstorm ways to snuff out the NT Government’s ‘taxpayer-funded polluting pipeline’ planned between Tennant Creek and Middle Arm.
It was resolved at the meeting to write a letter to the Northern Territory Government expressing their concern they have not been consulted about the proposed pipeline.
Protect Country Alliance spokesperson Graeme Sawyer said the meeting came a day after the NT Gunner Government released tenders for the massive ‘Gas and Strategic Minerals Precinct for Middle arm’ that would be fuelled by fracked gas taken from the Beetaloo Basin via the Tennant Creek pipeline.
He says the decision to release tenders was made despite growing concern from Native Title holders, economists, farmers and enivromental groups over the Gunner Government’s continued use of taxpayer funds to fuel the dirty polluting and economically unviable fracking industry.
“Farmers are worried their produce will sustain reputational damage if a giant fracked gas pipeline is ploughed through their properties,” he said.
“They are also worried because in the NT, we still do not have laws that protect farmers from third party liability if something goes wrong involving gas company infrastructure.
“Native Title holders along the proposed pipeline route have also raised concerns with the Chief Minister that the pipeline may damage sacred sites in their area.
“We also know the world is quickly moving away from fossil fuels, and there is a serious risk that projects like fracked-gas pipelines will become stranded assets as demand dries up.
“Gas pipelines simply aren’t worth the economic, social, or environmental risk.
“We should be celebrating and promoting our reputation for producing clean, uncompromised food in the Territory, not putting it at risk for fracked-gas pipelines that are barely economically feasible even with the injection of public funds.”
The proposed pipeline would carry fracked gas through Tennant Creek, Elliott, Newcastle Waters, Daly Waters, Larrimah, Mataranka, Katherine, Pine Creek and all the way to Middle Arm near Darwin.
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