'We need help': traditional owners accuse land council of 'facilitating fracking'

Exclusive: Traditional owners in the Beetaloo basin say they are not being effectively represented in the battle against a major gas industry expansion. The Northern Land Council denies the claim"There's a tremendous injustice happening in the Beetaloo basin," says native title lawyer Dominic Beckett. "The genuine voices of concern, fear and opposition are not being effectively represented or heard by the people whose job it is to do that."Last month, the Northern Territory government gave the green light for gas production to begin in the basin, a region between Katherine and Tennant Creek that contains vast reserves of shale gas. Continue reading...