Big oil and gas ,globalrnwarming, setting fires in the wilderness: it sounds like a combustible mix, but in this case it's good news.rnTo open a liquefied natural gas plant in Australia, ConocoPhillips had to agree to an innovative carbon-offset deal with the Northern Territory government. This requires the company to pay fire rangers from the Kabulwarnamyo clan and other aboriginal communities (40 percent of whom live below the poverty line] roughly $670,000 a year to reduce the number of uncontrolled blazes.
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