Fracking

Water is life in the Northern Territory. Our ancient aquifers are our lifeblood, supplying 90% of our water needs and keeping our springs and rivers flowing. They’re pretty much untouched by industry, and are home to diverse ecosystems not found anywhere else on earth.  

Now mega polluter Santos is forging ahead with plans to frack our precious groundwater. 

This is huge. Santos is the biggest player in the Beetaloo Basin, and this is their biggest ever fracking plan.  

This is just the beginning. Frackers have a plan to drill up to 6000 wells through our ancient aquifers, but they’re only just getting started. It’s time to stop them in their tracks. 

Together, we’ve held the fracking industry at bay for close to 20 years, and we will do it again. 

Stop Middle Arm

The planned Middle Arm gas and petrochemical hub will profit overseas gas companies, while shafting Territorians and everything we care about.

Middle Arm will use gas from Beetaloo and Barossa to establish a range of high-risk and high-emission industries right on Darwin Harbour.

Our Stop Middle Arm campaign highlights the serious health risks posed by the project, as well as dangers to the harbour and the remarkable cultural heritage of Middle Arm that has been maintained by Larrakia people for millennia.  

Barossa gas

Offshore, Santos’ reckless Barossa Gas pipeline is a climate and environmental disaster. Barossa is one of the most polluting new gas projects under development in Australia - containing at least double the carbon dioxide of any other offshore Australian gas field.

Don't Dump on the NT

Big gas companies want to ship the world’s carbon pollution through the taxpayer funded Middle Arm gas and petrochemical hub threaten the Territory’s coastal backyard, fishing culture and tourism industry.

Carbon pollution will be imported by ship from Korea and Japan to Middle Arm, transported via an underwater pipeline before being injected into the seabed.

The fossil fuel industry calls it carbon capture & storage. We call it carbon pollution dumping, a much more accurate term since these projects have failed to live up to the industry’s hype and capture and safely store the promised amount of carbon dioxide waste.  

We say no. No to blasting, drilling and dumping. No to leaks and spills. No to toxic chemicals in our air and waters

The Territory deserves better than being the world's carbon pollution dumping ground.

Risky offshore carbon dumping has never been approved in Australia, and it should never be allowed to start. Sign the petition!

Recharge the Territory

We are doing all we can to stop these destructive projects and articulate an alternative vision for the Territory's future that would deliver jobs, skills and lower bills.