Media Releases

MEDIA STATEMENT, Oct 7 2020 The Arid Lands Environment Centre CEO, says "Every budget is about choices, and right now the Government should be choosing to create stable, future-proof jobs for the benefit of...

20 August 2020 The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has slammed a proposal to use taxpayer funds to subsidise a planned billion dollar, 950km long gas pipeline in Central Australia. The proposed pipeline, put...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) welcomes the step forward that the Northern Territory Government has taken with the release of its Climate Change Response Towards 2050 and associated Three-Year Action Plan.  The Climate...

MEDIA ADVISORYMay 21, 2020 The group advising on the Covid-19 recovery wants to accelerate the development of new gas fields in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin and recommends that Australian taxpayers underwrite a massive...

April 29, 2020 Our national environment laws - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act - are failing to prevent species extinction and address today’s most pressing environmental threats including climate change. The 10-year...

New documents have emerged which appear to show the NT Gunner Government is preparing to use public money to fund a gas pipeline from Tennant Creek to Darwin, despite the increasingly dire state of...

On the 27th of November the Northern Territory Government announced that Santos had begun fracking exploration wells in environmentally sensitive areas of the Beetaloo Basin. ALEC is concerned that Santos is fracking ahead of...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has called for the Northern Territory Government to develop a Climate Change Act, saying that it welcomed the aspirations in the Climate Change Response: Towards 2050 but more...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Central Australia’s peak environmental organisation has called the NT Budget a ‘climate warming budget that puts mining and gas profits ahead of Territorians and our iconic wildlife and...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre is deeply disappointed by the Western Australian Government decision to open up the Canning Basin to fracking, which could blow Australia’s carbon budget twice over on its own. Like...