We're not buying the line that fracking brings wealth and opportunities to our communities | Que Nakamarra Kenny
by Que Nakamarra Kenny for IndigenousX from Environment | The Guardian on (#319Z8)
We need our mob working arm-in-arm with non-Indigenous people across the Northern Territory to stand up against fracking. It's not safe, not trusted and not wanted
There has been a lot of talk from both the Northern Territory and federal governments recently about the rivers of royalties, jobs and other benefits they claim will come from opening up the Territory to vast new shale fracking gas fields.
This has seen 83% of the Territory's landmass swallowed by shale gas exploration applications and permits from 2011 to the current day, under both Labor and Country Liberal governments.
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