Traditional owners banned from Origin Energy fracking meeting

Traditional owners were forced out of an Origin Energy meeting in Tennant Creek this week after they tried to present a letter with more than 200 signatures contesting plans to begin fracking.

BANNED: Outside Origin Energy's fracking meeting
in Tennant Creek this week, community members
hold a list of signatures from more than 200
Traditional Owners who say they have not been
 consulted about fracking plans.

Police were called to the location, where Origin's fracking plans were being challenged by community members, Native Title holders and pastoralists.

Origin Energy holds exploration permits for over 18,000 square kilometres of the Northern Territory's Beetaloo gas basin, in the Northern Barkly region.

The NT Government lifted its three-year moratorium on fracking last year, allowing the development of an onshore shale gas industry, which could start any day. 

Read the story from The Katherine Times by Roxanne Fitzgerald - “Traditional owners banned from Origin Energy fracking meeting.”