For the first time, specialised cameras have captured footage of pollution, invisible to the naked eye, produced by the INPEX and Santos gas plants on Middle Arm. This is a must-see for local residents who have been exposed to the gas industry’s toxic pollution for far too long. 

The footage was captured earlier this year using an Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) camera, by award-winning filmmaker Chris Phillips, and veteran journalist Kim Paul Nguyen. Their visual investigation will be screened to the local community, with an expert panel and opportunity for Q&A afterwards. 

Join us at Palmerston Game and Fishing club to see the OGI footage and find out what this means for your health and the air we breathe. 

You'll be joined on stage by:

• Bree Ahrens: 

  Bree Ahrens is the Executive Director of the Environment Centre NT. Her career as a champion for climate and environment issues, social justice and worker’s rights spans twenty years. She leads ECNT’s climate campaign, spearheading a multi-pronged program to hold back gas industry expansion in the Northern Territory, both on land and in our seas, and to shift the economic development narrative from digging, drilling and extracting, to a future that favours people and planet. 

• Dr Louise Woodward:

Dr Louise Woodward is a Northern Territory paediatrician living in Darwin who has grown frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and the wilful disregard of public safety by fossil fuel companies and governments. She is advocating against the expansion of the gas industry due to the risk to human health and the climate, and wants governments to address poor air and water quality due to fossil fuel production which disproportionately impact poorer communities known as "fossil fuel sacrifice zones". She successfully led a campaign with DEA and Parents for Climate Action for a senate inquiry into the Middle Arm gas hub proposed for Darwin harbour and is now working on a
campaign for a federal Clean Air Act with the Climate and Health Alliance. Her environmental advocacy has been in partnership with local indigenous leaders, pairing scientific evidence with indigenous knowledge in order to highlight the important and intricate relationship between health and country.

• Alex Blucher: 

Alexandra Blucher is Head of Investigations at research and advocacy organisation Climate Integrity where she leads public interest investigations. Alexandra and the Climate Integrity team have investigated the emission of harmful air toxics, including the carcinogen benzene, from LNG processing facilities in Australia, including Ichthys. The investigation shows the significant failings of the existing regulatory system to limit these emissions, and keep people safe. Alexandra is a Walkley award-winning investigative journalist who has investigated a vast range of areas including environmental and mining regulation, corporate accountability, the child protection system, local government corruption, the mistreatment of people with intellectual disabilities in the public and private sectors and allegations of war crimes.  

Join us at Palmerston Game and Fishing Club, December 1 at 6pm to catch a viewing of the OGI footage, and have your questions around Palmerston and Darwins air quality answered.