Exclusive: Middle Arm has been sold as ‘sustainable’ but papers reveal the Albanese government was briefed on the project’s links to new fossil fuel developments, including fracking in the Beetaloo basin
The briefing also notes that potential offshore carbon storage sites and options for CO2 pipeline corridors had been identified around the Middle Arm precinct.
“The description in the documents released under FoI describing Middle Arm as a facility that would support the social licence for gas extraction in Beetaloo basin is deeply concerning,” he said. “These new documents say what Labor has been trying to hide: they actually appear quite happy with the core thesis of Scott Morrison’s ‘gas-led recovery’.”
The spokesperson added that Infrastructure Australia had identified common use infrastructure at the Middle Arm precinct as a national priority, having assessed the Northern Territory government’s early business case.
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