Australia: Buru Energy Fracking on Yawuru lands without permission of Traditional Owners

whit — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:03:08 +0000

The Australian oil and gas exploration and production company Buru Energy is almost finished establishing a huge network of seismic lines and test fracking wells on Yawuru lands in the Canning Basin of Western Australia.

However, despite putting so much time and effort into its Laurel Formation Tight Gas Pilot Exploration Program, which gained official approval from Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) in June of this year, the company has a problem.

As Yawuru man Micklo Corpus commented in a recent video interview, all of Buru Energy’s hard work was carried out in