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Solar car visits Alice Springs ahead of World Solar Race
Desert Knowledge Precinct, South Stuart Highway Tuesday 26th September Alice Springs school students and community members will have the opportunity to view a solar electric...
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NT Government transparency on mining environmental bonds welcomed
The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) welcomes the Northern Territory Government’s adoption of a policy of disclosure for mining security bond amounts. The Government will now disclose the...
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Survey shows support for substantial increase in solar
The RePower Alice Springs Community Solar Survey has received 816 responses, with the vast majority of residents expressing a desire for a significant increase in...
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Poll reveals majority Territorians oppose fracking, meanwhile NT lags on renewables.
A MediaReach poll conducted for the NT News has revealed 51 per cent of Territorians support a ban on fracking. With support for a ban on...
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Energy technologies a focus at desertSMART EcoFair 2017
Renewable energy and waste to energy technologies will be a feature at desertSMART Ecofair 2017, with special guests journalist and science communicator Giles Parkinson from...
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Fracking the Territory will be a climate carbon bomb
In a week where we have heard that the Northern Territory has had the hottest July on record, the Northern Territory Scientific inquiry into Hydraulic...
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desertSMART EcoFair - shining a light on science and sustainability.
desertSMART EcoFair will be once again be putting science and sustainability in the spotlight in Central Australia with a program of events running over the...
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NT Government putting the gas cart before the climate horse
With today’s release of the Interim Report of the NT Fracking Inquiry, and the start of construction on the Northern Gas Pipeline this week, the...
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NT Environmental Regulation and Water Policy Reform
NT Environmental Regulatory Reform The Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources has released a discussion paper for environmental regulatory reform. The paper outlines...
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60,000 Artists Exhibition Communicates Climate Change
150 people attended the opening of the 60,000 Artists Climate Change Exhibition at Watch This Space on Friday June 2nd to celebrate World Environment Day....
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Spinifex country hosting historic desert ranger gathering 5.5.17
This week indigenous rangers from across the southern half of a Western Australia and the western half of South Australia are coming together at Ilkurlka...
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Credibility of Economic Report to NT Fracking Inquiry at Risk 26.5.17
The credibility of the economic report to the NT Fracking Inquiry will undoubtedly be in question after the announcement that ACIL Allen is the successful...
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