Protect Country Alliance is alarmed “junior” gas companies are being given approval to frack areas of the Northern Territory where studies are yet to be conducted into the impact of the polluting practice.

NT Traditional owners are travelling thousands of kilometres this week to bring a clear message to Sydney - Origin doesn’t have consent to frack their land and open the largest new oil and gas reserve in Australia. 

The Power of Country tour will launch at Sydney Town Hall on Thursday (September 5) night - bringing together Traditional Owners, First Nations people, Northern Territory communities, and allies, all fighting Origin’s plans to frack the Betaloo Basin. 

Protect Country Alliance condemns the deeply flawed and farcical process followed by the Northern Territory Government to determine its “no-go fracking zones”.

The government today confirmed fracking companies would be granted open slather to more than half of the NT’s landmass, after failing to apply its own criteria for the protection of critical assets like town drinking water supplies and areas of natural and cultural significance.