Ms LAWRIE - 2016-04-19
A pastoralist from Wyoming has visited Darwin and Katherine and talked about his firsthand experience of the fracking industry in Wyoming. The water and land are contaminated, and he talked about health effects on children and himself. He talked about the fly-in fly-out workforce that works in fracking gas fields, rather than local jobs that are promised by the industry. A visitor from Queensland told similar stories about the effects on her farming.
Put the question to Territorians on whether the Territory accepts a fracking industry, and listen to what they say. Will you hold a referendum in the July or August poll?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the answer to that is yes. On 27 August this year there will be a referendum, called the Territory election. It will be a referendum on jobs in the gas, cattle, agribusiness, horticulture and tourism industries, which are all industries that you failed in – 6300 jobs in the gas industry in the Territory.
This person comes in here tongue in cheek, a former deputy leader of a Labor government, along with all her colleagues on the other side. The former Labor government brought INPEX to town, which fracks rock to get gas out of it and has an onshore gas licence to frack. Labor brought that to town.
We continue to avoid sovereign risk, support bipartisanship and see job growth. You brought INPEX to town and it is drilling onshore gas. Gas for the lights in this parliament comes from a well owned by Eni, the largest state-owned company in Italy. It is the number-one company in Italy that is owned by the Italian government.
The gas comes from drilling into the rock …
Ms Lawrie: This is not about gas; it is about fracking. Get on to it.
Mr GILES: Member for Karama, if you ask a question I will give you a very detailed answer.
You never signed up for a local jobs plan so the traditional owners at Wadeye would get jobs. You never signed up for jobs for Territorians from Eni. You never created a local jobs plan for INPEX. You never signed up for carbon abatement for the INPEX project so it cannot walk away from its environmental requirements, and you brought it onshore for drilling. You now say, ‘Nothing to see here’.
Ninety-six per cent of the Northern Territory was under lease, or under application for gas leases. When you were ministers, in government, in Cabinet, in parliament, and when you were advisers you had your hands all over it. Coming up to an election – ‘Nothing to see here’. A cattle farmer from Wyoming, who has lost his goose, is tromping around the Territory selling some story.
We need to be mature and responsible, and have the right regulations to protect our environment and grow jobs in the Northern Territory.
You do not mind the price of fuel coming down. Let me tell you why the price of fuel has come down in the Northern Territory. The fracking industry in the US has created a supply and demand equation where the US now exports oil and gas rather than imports it. That is why the price of fuel is down in Australia, around the world and in the Northern Territory.
Madam Speaker, I will continue to support an industry with a robust regulatory environment that creates jobs for all Territorians.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, your time has expired.
Put the question to Territorians on whether the Territory accepts a fracking industry, and listen to what they say. Will you hold a referendum in the July or August poll?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the answer to that is yes. On 27 August this year there will be a referendum, called the Territory election. It will be a referendum on jobs in the gas, cattle, agribusiness, horticulture and tourism industries, which are all industries that you failed in – 6300 jobs in the gas industry in the Territory.
This person comes in here tongue in cheek, a former deputy leader of a Labor government, along with all her colleagues on the other side. The former Labor government brought INPEX to town, which fracks rock to get gas out of it and has an onshore gas licence to frack. Labor brought that to town.
We continue to avoid sovereign risk, support bipartisanship and see job growth. You brought INPEX to town and it is drilling onshore gas. Gas for the lights in this parliament comes from a well owned by Eni, the largest state-owned company in Italy. It is the number-one company in Italy that is owned by the Italian government.
The gas comes from drilling into the rock …
Ms Lawrie: This is not about gas; it is about fracking. Get on to it.
Mr GILES: Member for Karama, if you ask a question I will give you a very detailed answer.
You never signed up for a local jobs plan so the traditional owners at Wadeye would get jobs. You never signed up for jobs for Territorians from Eni. You never created a local jobs plan for INPEX. You never signed up for carbon abatement for the INPEX project so it cannot walk away from its environmental requirements, and you brought it onshore for drilling. You now say, ‘Nothing to see here’.
Ninety-six per cent of the Northern Territory was under lease, or under application for gas leases. When you were ministers, in government, in Cabinet, in parliament, and when you were advisers you had your hands all over it. Coming up to an election – ‘Nothing to see here’. A cattle farmer from Wyoming, who has lost his goose, is tromping around the Territory selling some story.
We need to be mature and responsible, and have the right regulations to protect our environment and grow jobs in the Northern Territory.
You do not mind the price of fuel coming down. Let me tell you why the price of fuel has come down in the Northern Territory. The fracking industry in the US has created a supply and demand equation where the US now exports oil and gas rather than imports it. That is why the price of fuel is down in Australia, around the world and in the Northern Territory.
Madam Speaker, I will continue to support an industry with a robust regulatory environment that creates jobs for all Territorians.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, your time has expired.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016