Decision to give grants to Liberal-linked Empire Energy for NT exploration prompts anger among environment and Indigenous groups
The Coalition has re-announced almost $20m for fracking company Empire Energy, a firm with links to the Liberal party, just two months after a court ruled a previous issue of the grants was invalid.
The resources minister, Keith Pitt, announced on Wednesday that three grants worth $19.4m would be given to Empire Energy to incentivise exploratory drilling in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin, a region the Morrison government wants to open up as part of its gas-led recovery.