Public Meeting 5.30pm Thursday 2nd November Andy McNeil Room, Alice Springs Town Council A public meeting has been called to explore community concerns over the proposal to store hazardous waste permanently at the Tellus...

There are a number of consultations out for public comment at the moment. It seems a critical time for planning for our town and the region. Make sure your voice is heard on this...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) joins many other Australians today in condemning the Turnbull Government’s continued attacks on renewable energy with the scrapping of the clean energy target. In one of the sunniest...

Last week’s announcement by Ebony Energy who plan to develop a coal to gas project at Andado station, 250 kilometres south east of Alice Springs, is a cynical attempt to garner interest with energy...

In line with the Arid Lands Environment Centre’s (ALEC) vision of ‘healthy futures for arid lands and people’ ALEC supports the rights of all people regardless of sexuality and gender to marry. Healthy communities...

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 car, meet past Bridgestone World Solar Challenge participants and...

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 amount of security held against individual authorised mining activities...

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 solar powered energy for Alice Springs. The Solar Survey...

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 fracking higher in rural areas, Alice Springs, Katherine, Daly...

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 Renew Economy and Associate Professor Bernadette McCabe from the...

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 Fracturing has been told by a leading researcher that fracking the...

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 weekend Friday 11th August - Sunday 13th August.  desertSMART...