Author Biography: Lauren Mellor has been a regional and remote community organiser for Protect Country Alliance, a Territory-wide network of communities, civil-society groups and landholders advocating for the protection of water, country and climate from the risks of fracking gas fields. She has worked for over a decade with Territory communities impacted by resource extraction to achieve industry and government reform through improvements to policy, law and practice. She is currently working on the development of Indigenous community-owned solar projects, and is a regular contributor to policy journals and public discourse on resource extraction, human rights and climate justice.
