The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

  • Written by: Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University
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Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires amid the intensifying climate crisis, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.

In February, a CSIRO-backed report was published, stating Beetaloo could be developed...

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