Energy supplier Santos has agreed to pay cattle station owner Rallen Australia $400,000 after failing to update them on the extent of their fracking operation on Rallen’s property in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin. The dispute ended in the Northern Territory Supreme Court on Friday, with Santos agreeing to pay legal fees, adhere to a 12-month moratorium on petroleum operations, and reform its stakeholder engagement policies, NT News reported. This comes after the two major Australian companies appeared in the Supreme Court on Monday, with Rallen accusing Santos of misleading the landowners by not informing them of an expansion of the operation, which may prove environmentally risky. While the agreement stipulated that Santos had permission to drill nine wells on the Tanumbirini Station near Daly Waters, the gas supplier filed a revision to its environmental management plan (EMP) to accommodate two additional wells but had not properly advised the new landowners, …