Petition

Over the last year the Federal Government has committed almost $1 billion to fund the dirty and dangerous ‘gas fired recovery’. This includes a $50 million hand out for big oil and gas corporations to fast track their fracking plans in the Beetaloo Basin, despite Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities continually standing up and saying no. Will you stand with them? Right now, we have a window of opportunity to stand with communities on the frontlines by calling on the Senate to block the Morrison Government from rushing through new laws that would waste millions of public dollars on fracking gasfields across the Northern Territory that put sacred country, water and our future at risk.  If we can show that there is a huge amount of opposition to this outrageous plan, then we can stop this gas fracking fund in its tracks.  P, will you support Traditional Owners and communities most affected by signing this open letter and calling on the senate to block this disastrous gas fracking plan? Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory have been calling for a ban on dangerous gas fracking for over a decade. We know that this industry endangers the water supply of remote communities, exacerbates the climate crisis and endangers the health and futures of First Nations across the globe.  Right now, greedy fossil fuel corporations like Origin Energy, Santos, and Empire Energy are trying to cash in on the government's promise of $50 million, in order to rush ahead and frack more wells this year. Not only is this a waste of public money, but it shows us that the government prioritises its dirty fossil fuel mates over First Nations communities. But the Senate can block this fund from going ahead. That’s why we need your support to call on the Labor Party and the Cross Bench to stand up against the Morrison Government’s destructive gas fracking plans.  Will you sign now and stand by and amplify the voices of Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory standing up against fracking on their country? The Federal Government should be listening to First Nations people, who for years have been demanding to put our health and wellbeing over the profits of the mining industry.  But what gives us hope is that whilst these oil and gas corporations are hungry for gas, it’s the sustained pressure and powerful resistance from frontline Aboriginal communities that has and will continue to hold them off.  In solidarity,  Millie - Seed