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Offsetting Beetaloo Basin emissions would require unproven CCS technology, off-limits international credits, CSIRO finds

The researchers were tasked with determining how — and if — the Northern Territory government's promise to offset all greenhouse gas emissions from fracking the Beetaloo Basin could be achieved.

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$Anti-fracking group launches Supreme Court action against the NT government's approval of Beetaloo Basin exploration plan$

Anti-fracking group launches Supreme Court action against the NT government's approval of Beetaloo Basin exploration plan

The Central Australian Frack Free Alliance will argue the Northern Territory's Environment Minister failed to consider the full environmental impacts of new exploration works in the Beetaloo Basin.

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$Activists launch legal challenge to Beetaloo fracking$

Activists launch legal challenge to Beetaloo fracking

Activists in Central Australia will ask the Supreme Court to review the NT government's decision to approve fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

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Northern Territory faces legal challenge over approval of Tamboran drilling and fracking in Beetaloo basin

Central Australian Frack Free Alliance argues NT environment minister failed to properly consider Tamboran project’s impact

The Guardian - AU

Blackpool hit by earthquake that sounded like rattling train with furniture shaking

Residents in the seaside resort and nearby villages described seeing furniture shake and hearing a noise like a train as the town was hit by a tremor measuring 1.5 on the Richter scale

Daily Mirror

Ed Miliband says local energy firms could be positive step despite Robin Hood collapse

The shadow climate change secretary was on a visit to Nottinghamshire when he questioned why there couldn't be companies such as "Mansfield Energy" set up in future.

Nottingham Post

Beetaloo gas fracking could start soon, despite NT government delay in implementing Pepper inquiry recommendations

The oil and gas industry's peak body says Beetaloo fracking licences could be issued in a month, as critics say the government's promise to implement a key inquiry is "impossible".

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In Pennsylvania, Hopes Rise But Questions Remain About New Governor’s Environmental Agenda

Josh Shapiro has revealed little about his policy proposals.

Capital & Main

What the end of the US shale revolution would mean for the world

Fracking catapulted America to the top of the energy hierarchy, but low yields and a lack of reinvestment threaten that position

Financial Times

Vivienne Westwood's most punk moments - including knickerless flash at Buckingham Palace

Dame Vivienne Westwood gave birth to the punk movement and continued challenging the status quo throughout her five decade career

Daily Mirror

$To ease looming West Texas water shortage, oil companies have begun recycling fracking wastewater$

To ease looming West Texas water shortage, oil companies have begun recycling fracking wastewater

Oil and gas companies are increasingly reusing “produced water” as West Texas aquifers are being depleted and the practice of injecting wastewater into disposal wells triggers more earthquakes.

The Texas Tribune

Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.

Capital & Main

Call for federal action over NT water plan

Hydrologists and environmentalists want the federal government to intervene over a massive NT government groundwater extraction plan linked to gas fracking.

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NT chief minister says states, Commonwealth must help offset emissions to obtain Beetaloo Basin gas

Natasha Fyles says the federal government and states with gas shortages must work with the Northern Territory if new supplies from the Beetaloo Basin are to be unlocked and all carbon emissions offset as promised.

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Inside the 14-Year Battle to Secure a Water Line for Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Long-suffering residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, feel cautiously hopeful after Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announces plea deal with natural gas company.

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Aboriginal land councils condemn Northern Territory government’s proposed fracking rules

A powerful Aboriginal land council has accused the NT government of treating traditional owners with contempt over its plans to legislate changes that allow companies to sell gas fracked during the "appraisal phase".

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t try and fit in’: energy boss Dale Vince on fracking, Farage and going green

Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk – and his vegan football team

The Texas Tribune

Texas oil and gas agency investigating 5.4 magnitude earthquake in West Texas, the largest in three decades

The quake was the third largest in Texas history, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An increase in seismic activity in Texas has been linked to injecting fracking wastewater underground.

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Organic property in Queensland outback, Plevna Downs, coexists with gas exploration

One of outback Queensland's first organic properties is also home to gas exploration and fracking.

Evening Standard

Watch: Boris Johnson promises support for Sunak but warns against backsliding on net zero

Boris Johnson warned Tories against going soft on climate change targets as he suggested that rising temperatures in Westminster may have contributed to his ousting. The former prime minister dismissed the “nonsense” of calls to resume fracking and return to fossil fuels in response to the soaring energy prices triggered…

The Guardian - UK

Labour Facebook ads attack red wall Tory MPs in drive to swing voters

New social media drive targets Conservatives’ failure to ban fracking, rising mortgage costs, and direct action taken by Just Stop Oil protesters

Belfast Live

Antrim and Newtownabbey 'betrayed' by MP Paul Girvan's fracking vote says councillor

The council has now voted against oil and gas exploration, extraction or fracking

The Guardian - UK

‘No evidence MPs were bullied,’ says report into fracking vote chaos

Review acknowledges shouting and ‘intemperate language’ but says chaotic scenes due to confusion over nature of vote

The National (Scotland)

Commons inquiry finds 'no evidence of bullying' on night of chaotic fracking vote

AN inquiry into the behaviour of members of the Conservative Party on the night of a key vote on fracking has found there was “no evidence of…

The Conversation

Public order bill: new law is designed to stop climate protests – but it could actually give activists a legal tool

The UK’s environmental movement has a long history of using protest as a strategy. Disruption is often at the heart of this, either disrupting infrastructure projects themselves in an attempt to stop them going ahead (roads, fracking sites), or targeting existing infrastructure (fuel depots, airport runways or bridges) to disrupt…

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