Areas of Action

Our vision is thriving nature and a sustainable future for all Territorians, and we're working towards this through our mission to inspire, support and take action that protects the environment. The Environment Centre NT's campaigns are the way we achieve our goals:

1. The Northern Territory is on track to be a zero-carbon economy by 2030

2. The Northern Territory has strong, transparent environmental law, policy and practice

3. People everywhere are speaking up and acting for the Northern Territory Environment

Check out our campaigns below and see how you can be involved and take action.

McArthur River Mine (MRM) Campaign

ECNT supporters have helped campaign strongly against the McArthur River Mine for decades. We are calling on you now to assist us as we join forces with Borroloola community in 2021. The McArthur River...

Mining and Regulatory Reform Futures

Sign up here to receive updates on our mining and regulatory reform campaigns The Territory has some of the weakest mining laws in the country, with a wasteland of legacy mines tarnishing...

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Water Futures

Sign up here to receive updates on our Water Futures campaigns Water security for all will be a core reform focus for ECNT in the year ahead. ECNT is concerned that large...

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Biodiversity Futures

Sign up here to receive updates on our Climate and Energy Futures campaigns Land clearing and large-scale water extraction from the proposed cotton industry – as well as other proposed agribusiness initiatives...

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Climate and Energy Futures

Sign up here to receive updates on our Climate and Energy Futures campaigns Throughout 2021, ECNT will continue on the goodwill and impact of its Repower NT campaign to achieve a zero...

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McArthur River Mine Campaign

The Environment Centre NT, together with Borroloola residents Jack Green and Josie Davey (represented by the Environmental Defenders Office) served court proceedings challenging the NT Government’s decision to slash the environmental bond for Glencore’s controversial McArthur River Mine by almost $120 million.  This is...

Call on the NTEPA

Join us by emailing Minister Lawler and the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NTEPA) to immediately call in Santos and Origin’s fracking plans for public environmental assessment under the Environment Protection Act...

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Call to leaders – Act Now on Climate

The Territory needs a Climate Change Act. The impacts of climate change are already being felt by Territorians and they are hitting our most vulnerable communities hardest. Extreme heat, reduced rainfall, health impacts, energy...

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2020 NT Election

The Environment Centre NT has produced an independent scorecard assessing the policies of the major parties ahead of the Northern Territory 2020 election. Major parties have responded to our detailed survey providing...

Repower NT

The Northern Territory has an incredible opportunity to draw on world-class solar resources to rebuild our economy. If you support a solar-powered economic plan that will grow jobs for Territorians, join the campaign...

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Safe Climate

A comprehensive climate policy is urgently needed to outline how the Northern Territory will reduce emissions, provide certainty for business and the economy, and to plan for how urban and remote NT...

Healthy Coasts

The Northern Territory coast is an incredible asset that is under pressure from development projects and mining. The NT Government recently released the NT Coastal and Marine Management Strategy, delivering on one...

Sustainable Living

Motivating and enabling the Top End community to live sustainably is at the core of what we do at ECNT. To ECNT, to live sustainably means to consciously make decisions about how...

Protecting NT Nature

The Territory is renowned for its big rivers full of barramundi and crocodiles, its vast deserts and woodlands that are home to unique and amazing wildlife, and its shallow seas are a...

Frack Free NT

The NT is a beautiful place. You know that. But the Territory needs your help. Despite strong community opposition the NT Government has opened up the Territory to industrial shale fracked gas...