Coalition granted $21m to Liberal party donor to frack Beetaloo Basin
by Christopher Knaus and Lisa Cox from on (#5KZPE)
Environmental groups criticise grant to Empire Energy, which had lobbied ministers for information on funding, as a brazen misuse of taxpayer funds'
The Coalition handed three grants for fracking in the Beetaloo Basin to a political donor and Liberal-linked company, which had earlier lobbied federal ministers for information on the funding scheme.
On Wednesday, resources minister Keith Pitt announced that Imperial Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of Empire Energy, would receive $21m in grants through the $50m Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program.
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