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Georgina, this is
outrageous!
Over the last year the Federal Government has committed
almost $1 billion to fund the dirty and dangerous ‘gas fired
recovery’. This includes a
$50 million hand out for big oil and gas corporations to fast track
their fracking plans in the Beetaloo Basin, despite Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities
continually standing up and saying no. Will
you stand with them?
Right now, we have a window of opportunity to stand with
communities on the frontlines by calling on the Senate to block the Morrison Government from
rushing through new laws that would waste millions of public dollars
on fracking gasfields across the Northern Territory that put sacred
country, water and our future at risk.
If we can show that there is a huge amount of opposition to
this outrageous plan, then we can stop this gas fracking fund in its
tracks.
Georgina,
will you support Traditional Owners and communities most affected by
signing this open letter and calling on the senate to block this
disastrous gas fracking plan?
Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory have
been calling for a ban on dangerous gas fracking for over a
decade. We know that this
industry endangers the water supply of remote communities, exacerbates
the climate crisis and endangers the health and futures of First
Nations across the globe.
Right now, greedy fossil fuel corporations like Origin
Energy, Santos, and Empire Energy are trying to cash in on the
government's promise of $50 million, in order to rush ahead and frack
more wells this year. Not
only is this a waste of public money, but it shows us that the
government prioritises its dirty fossil fuel mates over First Nations
communities.
But the Senate can block this fund from going ahead.
That’s why we need your
support to call on the Labor Party and the Cross Bench to stand up
against the Morrison Government’s destructive gas fracking
plans.
Will
you sign now and stand by and amplify the voices of Traditional Owners
in the Northern Territory standing up against fracking on their
country?
The Federal Government should be
listening to First Nations people, who for years have been demanding
to put our health and wellbeing over the profits of the mining
industry.
But what gives us hope is that
whilst these oil and gas corporations are hungry for gas, it’s the
sustained pressure and powerful resistance from frontline Aboriginal
communities that has and will continue to hold them off.
In solidarity,
Millie - Seed
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