Larrakia woman Laniyuk has travelled to Canberra to express the concerns of her people.
She says that she is disgusted by the government committing $1.5 billion to help develop the Tamboran Resources's NT LNG plant, a project planned as part of the Middle Arm industrial precinct.
"To invest 1.5 billion dollars of public funding to endanger the lives and livelihood of all people living on Larrakia country is disgusting," she said.
To further the destruction of Aboriginal Land across the Northern Territory and into the Tiwi Islands is completely unacceptable.
Opponents of the project have maintained their concerns over the cultural, health and environmental impacts.
"I've heard loud and clear from Traditional Owners, they do not want toxic environmental wrecking projects on their Country," Greens Senator Dorinda Cox told NITV News.
Public hearings into the Territory’s proposed $1.5 billion Middle Arm industrial precinct are being held in Canberra over two days this week, with a line-up of leading gas industry executives set to defend the development to the federal parliament.
Larrakia woman Laniyuk travelled from Canberra to Darwin to express the concerns of her people.
On Monday, Tamboran Resources CEO Joel Riddle revealed government have not yet considered key environmental issues.
"Was their concerns raised in relation to threatened species and migratory species in relation to your projects from the federal department?" senate inquiry chair Sarah Hanson-Young put to Mr Riddle.
"Not that I am aware of senator," Mr Riddle responded.
Dr Kate Wylie, a GP and the executive director for Doctors for the Environment Australia told NITV News that she is concerned over the health impacts of the Territory’s proposed $1.5 billion dollar Middle Arm industrial precinct on residents in Darwin and Palmerston.
"These projects mean increased air pollution with cardiovascular respiratory disease and an increased risk of leukaemia," she said.
It estimated Tamboran’s Middle Arm gas facility would, in the first part of the project, generate domestic life cycle emissions equivalent to adding six to eight million new cars to Australian roads, and that overall emissions would be more than 50 per cent higher than the nation’s total 2021 emissions.
Other Middle Arm proponents TE H2 and Tivan will also front the committee, alongside several major industry players in the NT, including Santos, Empire Energy, and Inpex.
It comes after public hearings held in Darwin in April were criticised for leaving pro-development stakeholders off the lineup.
A report from the inquiry is expected in August.
