Thirty-one of Australia's leading climate scientists and doctors have written an open letter to the Northern Territory Government calling on it to not permit the opening up of new gas fields through hydraulic fracturing.
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| The scientists say the estimated emissions rise from developing one gas field is unacceptable. |
The letter, coordinated by the Australia Institute think tank, also called on the Territory Government's fracking inquiry panel to recommend that new shale gas fields are too risky because of the consequences of potentially increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Territory Government will make a decision on whether to allow fracking of major shale gas reserves to resume after its inquiry delivers a final report next month.
"The NT is in the region likely to experience the most severe impacts of global warming, for example it is highly susceptible to temperature increases," wrote the scientists, including the CSIRO's Climate Change Hub leader Professor David Karoly.
Read the ABC News story by Jane Bardon - “Fracking ban in the Northern Territory should stay, group of leading climate scientists says.”
