With new fossil fuel corporations finding it increasingly difficult to find the finance, the Scott Morrison government has come to the rescue with public subsidies. Margaret Gleeson reports.
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Hundreds of people gathered outside the Northern Territory parliament in Darwin on April 18 to protest the Labor government鈥檚 decision, announced the day before, to lift the ban on fracking. Another protest is planned for April 22.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced the onshore ban on fracking would be lifted following the tabling of an independent report which concluded that the risks associated with the hydraulic fracturing of gas could be 鈥渕anaged鈥 and 鈥渞egulated鈥.