Tamboran Resources has told the Federal Senate's Middle Arm inquiry that studies suggesting health risks from the gas industry often have no basis.
The Tamboran Resources's NT LNG plant is a project planned as part of the Middle Arm industrial precinct, which the federal government has committed $1.5 billion to help develop. "The Chan School of Public Health at Harvard found, after studying a cohort of 15 million people, higher rates of death from all causes, among those living near or downwind of a fracking well.
"A lot of the studies that we've reviewed in detail, these studies are based on estimated data instead of measured data, and when you look at studies based on estimated data, that introduces uncertainties," he added.The head of the NT's Environment Protection Authority , Paul Vogel, told the committee the watchdog had decided Tamboran Resources's Beetaloo Basin gas field expansion plansThe Commonwealth committed more than $1.
"Already the Darwin community suffers one of the worst air qualities in the country and it's not being regulated properly by the EPA," she said."It doesn't have that impact," she said.