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Justin Tutty appeared before the Darwin Local Court on November 28, charged with trespass for locking on to Tamboran’s Resources megafracker in May.

The United States company Origin Energy’s stake in fracking the Beetaloo Basin last year. The megafracker can drill a well in just 10 days, compared to 70 days for a conventional rig.

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But its plans are being scrutinised by the NT Supreme Court in a case brought by the Central Australian Frack Free Alliance (CAFFA) against the NT Environment Minister.

Tamboran workers went public in August about being told .

The company has begun work at the Shenandoah South 1H well pad in the Beetaloo Basin, on November 27.

Climate Analytics that CSIRO/GISERA has significantly underestimated the annual emissions from fracking the Beetaloo Basin: a true reckoning would be the equivalent to 11% of Australia’s total emissions in 2021.

An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from March that the climate emergency is now so acute that no new fossil fuel projects should be approved. Unless global emissions are halted, temperatures could rise above 3°C by 2100, causing irreversible damage to ecosystems.

Marcos A Orellana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, who visited Darwin over August and September .

“Recent scientific reports suggest that temperatures in the Northern Territories could make the region uninhabitable for humans,” he said. “Despite that, petrochemical and oil and gas industries are lining up massive projects in the region. This threatens to make Darwin and the region a climate change sacrifice zone.”

Tamboran to process its fracked gas at the Middle Arm Industrial Precinct, currently the subject of a Senate inquiry.

The Middle Arm Precinct is set to play a crucial role in helping expand the gas and petrochemical industries.

“It’s outrageous that these fracking companies can get away with absolute impunity, with the full protection and encouragement of the law,” said retired schoolteacher Christine Cox, who supported Tutty in court. “Meanwhile those who try to do something about it are dragged through the courts on criminal charges.”

Cox is a member of the . “In my view, direct action and civil disobedience are the only ways we are going to protect our environment because governments have shown themselves to be entirely captured by the fossil fuel industry.”