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Alice Springs Angela Pamela Collective

Angela Pamela is a uranium tenement 25km from Alice Springs. ASAP is a community group opposed to exploration and mining of the site.

More on ASAP can be found here.

Welcome to the new Coordinator

The Arid Lands Environment Centre would like to welcome Jimmy Cocking as the new ALEC Coordinator. We look forward to working with Jimmy, who brings energy and experience from years of campaigning on environmental and social justice issues in Victoria and abroad.

Process not postcodes needed for radioactive waste management

27, February, 2008

The Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) Alice Springs welcomes the commitment from Warren Snowdon today that Labor will be “finding a national solution” for radioactive waste management (ABC online 27/02/08).

NT waste dump proposal buried

November 27, 2007

The Arid Lands Environment Centre-Beyond Nuclear Initiative (ALEC-BNI) welcomes the incoming Labor Government’s commitment to repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act that overrode Territory laws to force a federal radioactive dump on the NT.

PM’s half truths about half lives

August 29, 2007

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has criticised Prime Minister Howard’s support for a federal radioactive dump in the NT, claiming the project and process has never been accepted or endorsed by Territory residents or the Territory government.

ALEC - working to develop Alice Springs as a Solar City

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) welcomes today’s announcement by Federal Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull that Alice Springs is the newest “Solar City”.