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Dear Minister,

I am writing to ask for your support to ensure that emissions from fracking in the Beetaloo Basin are offset by the gas companies responsible for these emissions. I urge you to use your position on the Energy and Climate Ministerial Council to ensure that the cost of pollution falls on fossil fuel companies, not on Australian households.

According to expert modelling, fracking in the Beetaloo could produce more than 1.4 billion tonnes of CO2 over the project’s first 20 years, equivalent to 2.5 times Australia’s total annual emissions. Even if the emissions from exported gas are excluded, fracking in the Beetaloo would still produce enough carbon to take up 27% of Australia’s remaining carbon budget.

As part of the Energy and Climate Ministerial Council, you are in a unique position to influence Australia's approach to offsetting fossil fuel developments such as fracking in the Beetaloo.

The most effective way of ensuring no GHG increases from fracking in the NT is to not approve fracking projects and keep the Beetaloo’s gas in the ground. However, if offsets are to be used for fracking in the Northern Territory, it is crucial that these be appropriately regulated, and that the burden of cost does not fall on Australian households. The simplest way to ensure effective monitoring and compliance of emissions offsets without additional costs to Australian households would be to place the legal responsibility directly on to gas companies fracking in the NT.

Offsetting of emissions caused by fracking in the Beetaloo Basin should be the responsibility of fossil fuel companies, not subsidised by state or federal governments. No production approvals should go ahead before a legally binding offset scheme has been established.

As such, we are calling on Federal, state and territory governments to:
     - Ensure that no production approvals for fracking projects are given before a consistent and legally binding offsetting scheme has been established 
       - Place the responsibility of offsetting scope 2 and 3 emissions from fracking in the Beetaloo on the gas companies responsible for fracking projects by amending existing NT petroleum laws and regulations, in order to make offsetting conditions on EMPs mandatory 
       - Ensure that any proposed offsetting scheme is legally secure, binding, and has a strong and transparent reporting and compliance regime
       - Require that only Australian Carbon Credit Units be used, in order to maintain integrity of offsets
        - Rule out providing any state or federal funding to support gas companies meeting their requirements
        - Include measures to ensure that the same offset requirements or a cost signal applies to any proposed gas exports from the NT, to ensure offset requirements do not produce the perverse outcome of even higher gas exports (which currently sit around 70% of Australian produced gas)

As a member of the Energy and Climate Ministerial Council, we are asking you to advocate in Council dialogues in support of these asks, including at the ECMC meeting scheduled for November 24th 2023. Emissions from fracking in the Beetaloo may start in the NT, but their impact on climate change and Australia’s emissions reductions will be felt across all states and territories.

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