00:01The message from the Territory Government is clear.
00:05The NT is on its way to becoming an energy powerhouse.
00:08Few places on this earth can offer significant scalable resources
00:13to investors and governments with so much upside.
00:16The Chief Minister today joining hundreds of industry leaders
00:19at the North's biggest annual resources gathering.
00:23We have the resources, the land, the infrastructure, the talent,
00:26the strategic geography and the proximity to major markets
00:30all within one jurisdiction.
00:33With the first gas now officially flowing from the Beedaloo Basin,
00:36the focus turns to what's next and how to expand.
00:40This 430 trillion cubic feet resource is ready to rock and roll
00:45and there has never been a more exciting time
00:48to be part of the Territory's future.
00:51The Federal Coalition also homing in on its hopes
00:54for a bigger gas future, reiterating its promise to tear up
00:58Labor's anti-gas and coal policies of elected and slash red tape.
01:04To be an energy superpower, we must unlock all of our available resources.
01:12Coal, gas, oil, uranium, renewables and not to mention critical minerals.
01:20But it's a plan protesters outside the event say threatens water resources
01:25and will accelerate global warming.
01:28People are flying in here from all over the country, all over the world
01:30for a few days in Darwin. They make decisions. They leave.
01:34They don't have to leave. They don't have to live here.
01:36They don't have to clean up the mess. It's us who are stuck here
01:38with their dirty gas industry.
01:41Inside, the Chief Minister's response was direct.
01:43Very disappointed. I did not get to see them holding their
01:47petroleum product placards, standing out the front,
01:51being the hypocrites that we all know that they are,
01:54championing their so-called movement.
01:56With more than 900 delegates attending the conference,
01:59the Chief Minister used the opportunity to spruit the Territory
02:02as the gas bank for Australia and announced a new minerals emblem
02:07and new pipelines that will connect the Beedaloo Basin to Queensland
02:11and the East Coast.
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