Protect Country Alliance has lodged a formal complaint with the Northern Territory Information Commissioner after a Freedom of Information request that would have revealed the chemical cocktails used by fracking companies was repeatedly knocked back, with the CSIRO claiming it couldn't provide the chemical lists because they were company "trade secrets".

Protect Country Alliance is flabbergasted NT Environment Minister Eva Lawler has taken the unprecedented step of “partially” approving Empire Energy’s Environment Management Plan for its controversial seven well frack project near Borroloola.

Protect Country Alliance has slammed Resources Minister Keith Pitt’s decision to order his department to keep handing millions of taxpayer dollars to fracking companies under the “Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program”, despite an ongoing Federal Court case against the scheme.