Two Northern Territory Government departments have refused to explain the contradictions contained in an internal government report into a breach of fracking legislation by Empire Energy – now called Beetaloo Energy Australia – which involved one department sending a letter to “encourage behaviour change” after considering prosecution of the matter, while the other considered the company had done nothing wrong but still took action “to ensure it does not happen again”.

The Department of Lands, Planning and the Environment and the Department of Mines and Energy, refused to comment on the contradictory document known as the Enforcement Recommendation Report, which was produced by the former, and not published until two-and-a-half years after the alleged breach.

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