NT government deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company labelled ‘carbon bomb’

Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide competitively priced gas' for the territory

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The Northern Territory government has signed a major deal to buy fracked gas from the Beetaloo basin south of Katherine a year after it gave the green light for production in the region.

The chief minister, Eva Lawler, said the government was backing the growth of the territory's onshore gas industry" and had signed a nine-year gas sales agreement with the US company Tamboran Resources.

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