Traditional Owners along the route of the Northern Gas Pipeline route from Tennant Creek to Mount Isa have lodged an emergency objection to the NT Development Consent Authority.
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The Wakaya Aboriginal Land Trust formally lodged an objection to the NT Government saying they had not consented to land clearing. The Wakaya and Waramungu Aboriginal Land Trusts said Jemena had not got their consent for its proposed pipeline route and had downplayed plans to transport fracked gas through the pipeline.
Jemena has said gas from current off-shore conventional sources will underpin the pipeline’s development, with future sources of gas depending on the outcome of the NT Government’s review into hydraulic fracturing.
Jemena said it had negotiated in good faith with Northern and Central Land Councils.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
