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NTEPA renews licence for Darwin gas export hub amid methane scandal
September 19, 2025
The Darwin community has every right to be outraged by the EPA’s decision to renew the Santos gas export hub license for another five years.
Read More ShareStatement in relation to Dr Paul Vogel and role with mining company VBX
September 18, 2025
Attribute to Executive Director Environment Centre NT, Dr Kirsty Howey: “The revelation that the Chair of the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority, Dr Paul Vogel, has a paid role with a mining company that...
Read More ShareOur future is at stake: new alliance calls for urgent action on National Climate Risk Assessment
September 15, 2025
A new conservation alliance has called for urgent action to phase out fossil fuel exports as today’s National Climate Risk Assessment shows that large areas of Australia’s north will become unlivable due to climate...
Read More ShareMajor conference in Darwin on how Australia’s north is treated like a sacrifice zone but communities are fighting back
September 15, 2025
Leading voices from First Nations, environmental and social justice movements will meet this week to discuss how Australia's Great North - one of Earth's last great wilderness strongholds - is under unprecedented threat, and...
Read More ShareSantos CEO cancels plan to speak at NT Resources Week as methane leak controversy continues
September 03, 2025
Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher has cancelled his keynote address at NT Resources Week today as the fallout from a major methane leak at the company’s gas export hub in Darwin continues.
Read More ShareSantos DLNG methane leak exposed
September 01, 2025
Cover up: Santos gas export hub in Darwin has been leaking methane for nearly 20 years Environment groups are calling on the Albanese Government to step in, as documents reveal Santos’ major gas export...
Read More ShareTerritory EPA challenged after gutting its climate pollution rules
August 22, 2025
The Finocchiaro government has gutted its rules around the regulation of climate pollution in the Northern Territory, just months after scrapping its promised 2030 emissions reduction target.
Read More ShareTerritorians secure two major wins but the fight against deforestation and Big Cotton is far from over
August 08, 2025
Territorians have achieved two significant victories in their fight against large-scale land clearing, with the proponents of the Ord 3 development seeking a federal environmental review of their controversial cotton growing plans at Sprit...
Read More ShareWatershed climate ruling casts doubt over subsidy for Middle Arm
July 25, 2025
Environment Centre NT says a landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice on climate obligations casts doubt over the $1.5 billion federal subsidy for a toxic gas and petrochemical hub planned for Darwin...
Read More ShareGreenwashing dismay as Albanese Government designates carbon dumping off Darwin as a ‘major project’
July 03, 2025
The Environment Centre NT is dismayed that the Albanese Government is spinning one of the world’s largest carbon dumping projects as a ‘low carbon' project while opening the floodgates to massive gas expansion across...
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