Despite the billions spent and pledged on the Beetaloo Basin’s shale gas reserves, it could prove to be a massive sinkhole for investors’ and taxpayers’ cash, according to this report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

This paper highlights the extent of taxpayer assistance to the onshore oil and gas industry in the Northern Territory.

This review found growing evidence of direct health impacts, as well as a clear potential for indirect impacts of gas and oil mining on essential environmental determinants of health, including a stable climate, air quality, water quality, water security, food security, community cohesion and, in some locations, geological stability.

Gas exploration is being undertaken in the Wide Bay Burnett region. This report argues that development of gasfields would present a risk to the region’s diverse services, tourism, agricultural and manufacturing economies.

This report examines the fundamental conflict of interest that underlies the Gas Industry Social and Environmental Alliance (GISERA), making it an inappropriate organisation to undertake research to evaluate the social and environmental impacts of unconventional gas development.