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Today will bring you the tale of the stygofauna.
You are forgiven if you don't know what they are.
Hardly anyone has ever seen them, they are expert at hiding.
They are very shy, and very rare.
Stygofauna, a fancy scientific name for a tiny shrimp, are the central characters in yet another episode of the long-running soap opera that is the Beetaloo.
Apologies for banging on about this place which had been lost in the wilds of the Northern Territory outback, but I am one of the very few reporters who have ever been there.
I kind of feel responsible for keeping it front of mind.
The Beetaloo, you may remember, is central to this nation's future energy strategy.
Vast reservoirs of natural gas are said to lay locked in shale rocks deep underground.
Australia wants to mine this gas as our "transition fuel" between coal and renewables.
But before that happens the Territory Government promised all sorts of checks to make sure it was okay to do so.
Even if the Beetaloo appears to be in the middle of nowhere.
Scientists using high-tech gear like fishing roads plumbed the depths of 26 groundwater bores and two springs in August and October 2019.
These folk from the CSIRO and Darwin's Charles Darwin University found a tiny blind shrimp was living down there in the darkness, measuring up to 20mm.
There were whole families of tiny aquatic animals known as stygofauna, mostly between 0.3 and 10 millimetres in length.
Some are new to science.
It wasn't just the little animal they worry about if fracking of wells was allowed to happen here, but the belief it could prove the aquifers in this remote beef grazing country are connected.
There are fears the fracking process used to extract the gas could pollute vital groundwater reservoirs.
And this is where the story of these deep wells gets even more murky.
That was stage one, the scientists need to go back and verify their findings, that's how science works.
The same group of scientists from the university bid for the job, and were surprised to be knocked back.
A Western Australian company called Biota won the contract instead.
Even more strangely, Biota's contract offer was $287,991 - more than $130,000 more than CDU's contract was worth before it was terminated.
It's not us saying this is strange.
The NT government's own "buy local" advocate said it was strange.
The advocate has taken the very unusual action of referring the matter to the NT's independent Commissioner Against Corruption.
Of course, local gas opponents claimed the government switched the contract because it didn't like what the first CDU investigation found.
While agreeing Biota was more than equipped to do the job, Project Country Alliance said it was an attempt to sideline science from the debate.
Keep the stygofauna in the dark, so to speak.
Like we said, the soap opera continues.
The Beetaloo is having a laugh I reckon.
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