Protect our State, not Polluters: NT Fracking

AYCC Call to arms: https://www.facebook.com/events/1101684231216143/

Gas  fracking is a dirty industry, polluting water, air, and land, putting  health and climate at risk. 

The pollution from the Beetaloo basin alone  would be equal to that of over 50 coal fired power stations! 

This year,  the Labor government introduced new laws requiring frackers like  Tamboran to offset the emissions they pollute, but left it vague on who  exactly is paying for these offsets. 

The frackers reckon the government  should pay, and use public money to foot the bill.

So  let’s get this straight. Tamboran wants to frack the NT - and in the  process poison ground water, trash land rights, lock in decades of  warming - and then they want to use public money to pay for their pollution? 

Not on our watch. 

For decades, fossil fuel companies have  been getting all kinds of tax breaks and handouts of public money,  making record profits by fuelling the climate crisis. Paying for their  own pollution is the bare minimum, because let’s be real here, the best  way to stop pollution from the Beetaloo is to not frack it.

We're  calling on Minister Guy Barnett to use his position on the Energy and Climate Ministerial Council to ensure that costs of offsetting fracking  in the NT fall on fossil fuel companies. 

Make polluters pay for their own pollution!