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MEDIA RELEASE: ENVIRONMENT GROUPS WELCOME SENATE REPORT CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO MIDDLE ARM
April 19, 2023
The Northern Territory’s peak conservation body has welcomed the long-awaited final Senate Report on fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, backing its recommendation for an inquiry into plans to construct a “new gas demand centre”...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE: NT GAS PROJECTS DEAD AND BURIED BY SAFEGUARD MECHANISM DEAL
March 27, 2023
The announcement of a deal about the Safeguard Mechanism today sounds the death knell for new gas projects in the Northern Territory – including the Beetaloo and Barossa projects - claims the NT’s peak...
Read More ShareNT MINING REGULATOR "AN EMBARASSING FAILURE"
February 22, 2023
The NT Mining Regulator (DITT) is failing Territorians on McArthur River Mine. The latest Independent Monitor’s Report, which was quietly released in early January 2023, reveals that DITT is doing a disgraceful job of...
Read More ShareA TURNING POINT: ENVIRONMENT GROUPS WELCOME FEDERAL NATURE LAW REFORM TO HALT THE NT’S EXTINCTION CRISIS
December 09, 2022
The Environment Centre NT welcomes federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s announcement of landmark reforms to our federal environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. However, more ambition and urgency are required to...
Read More ShareROPER UNDER THREAT FROM MASSIVE WATER ALLOCATION TO FACILIATE FRACKING IN THE BEETALOO BASIN
November 18, 2022
Despite the risks to tourism, pastoralists, and Territory communities, the government is forging ahead with its plan to allocate billions of litres of water from the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer by declaring water allocation plan...
Read More ShareEnvironment groups slam Middle Arm Budget announcement, calling it a fossil fuel subsidy for a petrochemical precinct
October 17, 2022
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Read More ShareMedia release: Federal Court to travel to Tiwi Islands for on-country evidence in legal challenge to Santos’ Barossa Gas Project
August 22, 2022
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Read More ShareMedia release: ‘This is a crisis’: The Territory’s peak environment groups respond to State of the Environment Report
July 20, 2022
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Read More ShareBROKEN PROMISES: MINISTER KING FIFOS TO DARWIN TO ANNOUNCE TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY
July 08, 2022
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