Say no to toxic petrochemicals at Darwin Harbour!

The Northern Territory Government have a plan to pollute our Harbour with toxic petrochemical factories, and the Federal Government are backing them up with your taxpayer dollars.

This is a disaster for our climate, harbour and our health. This enormous industrial development endangers the health of Darwin and Palmerston residents. If it goes ahead as planned it will change this place we know and love forever.

We need to tell them that Territorians don’t want these polluting industries on our doorstep.

Will you contact Chief Minister Eva Lawler, and CC Territory politicians, expressing your opposition to this toxic project? Sign opposite >> Your email will be sent to the Chief Minister, MP Luke Gosling, and MP Marion Scrymgour.

The government are claiming the project will be ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ but all the evidence suggests that this is a toxic fossil fuel project, designed to produce petrochemicals using fracked gas from the Beetaloo Basin.

Let our Chief Minister know you support a genuinely green and healthy vision for the Harbour, not one filled with petrochemicals and fossil fuels!

Dear Chief Minister,

I am writing to you to express my concern with the Northern Territory Government’s proposed gas and petrochemical hub, which has been called the Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct (MASDP).

The publicly available plans indicate the hub is going to used fracked gas from the Beetaloo basin as a feedstock to produce petrochemicals such as ammonia, urea, ethylene, and methanol.

I have major concerns about the health impacts of this project, particularly given its proximity to residential areas in Darwin and Palmerston. The air quality impacts of petrochemical plants are well known, and modelling has shown that the MASDP could increase the risk of a range of health conditions for nearby residents, including cancer and cardiovascular disease.

In addition, the potential impacts on the Darwin Harbour and the Territory lifestyle are of major concern. I love Darwin Harbour, and many Territorians use the Harbour for recreation and fishing. This enormous industrial development threatens what Territorians know and love.

It is outrageous that the Federal Government has committed $1.5billion of taxpayer money for this project. The Northern Territory needs investment in health, education, roads, and adaptation to the impacts of climate change, not funding for fossil fuel projects.

I am calling on you to commit to no new fossil fuel projects in the Northern Territory and to abandon these toxic plans to put a petrochemical hub on the doorstep of Darwin and Palmerston.

Yours sincerely,