FRACQUARIE v MARKET FORCES & BEETALOO GAS
Update: 2025-08-01
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FRACQUARIE v MARKET FORCES in the BEETALOO BASIN N.TClimate Action ShowAugust 4th 2025 Produced by Vivien Langford Guests Angelica Mantikas – Market Forces Gas Campaigner Kyle Robertson and Morgan Picket from Market Forces Deanna – A nurse and member of Rising Tide Owen – Australian Youth Climate CoalitionMusic – Patrick Harte PIPELINE TO NOWHEREMarket Forces analysis reveals:Australia does not need the gas from Beetaloo fracking for domestic gas power generation needs.Beetaloo fracking plans are costly, highly polluting and unnecessary.The astronomical costs ($2.7 – $4bn) of APA’s planned pipeline would be passed on to consumers on Australia’s east coast.Australia doesn’t have a gas supply problem – it has an LNG export problem.Despite APA Group’s claims that fracking Beetaloo will benefit the domestic market, if fully realised, Beetaloo Energy’s plans would see 83% of the gas it fracks exported overseas.The burning of fracked gas from Beetaloo would worsen the climate crisis and drastically undermine Australia’s climate commitments, when we need to transition to clean energy solutions. Can you take Action ?Tell Macquarie’s CEO and Chair to listen to shareholders and stop funding dangerous fossil fuel expansion! Add your name to the open letter and join thousands of Australians calling on the banks to stop funding the companies working to detonate the Beetaloo carbon bomb!https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/companies/apa-group/pipeline-to-nowhere-apa-groups-dangerous-bet-on-beetaloo-fracking/
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