New NT Chief Minister a ‘big supporter’ of onshore gas industry

NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler says she is a “big supporter" of the onshore gas industry and has been since "day one”. “I have also held the environment portfolio – I did a lot of work around the policy work of climate change,” she told Sky News Australia. “We have, I think, the strongest environmental protections in the world around the onshore oil and gas industry. “You have to have both, we know that – Territorians want both. “You have to have gas, not just renewables.”