Media Releases
Northern territory’s peak environment bodies lodge review of singleton station water licence
June 02, 2021
The Northern Territory’s peak environment bodies, Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) and the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) have lodged applications for Ministerial review of the Water Controller’s decision to grant Fortune Agribusiness a licence...
Read More ShareImperial fracking undermines NT environmental safeguards and needs environmental impact assessment
May 27, 2021
The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), central Australia’s peak environmental body, is calling on Imperial Oil and Gas’ proposal to frack seven new shale gas wells in the greater McArthur Basin to undergo a...
Read More Share2020 Budget: betting our future on industries of the past
October 07, 2020
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...
Read More ShareMedia release: Gas companies looking to smoke billions down desert pipeline
August 20, 2020
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...
Read More ShareMedia release: NT Act on climate for economic rebound
July 10, 2020
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...
Read More ShareLeaked Covid-19 commission report shows aggressive expansion plans for Territory gas
May 21, 2020
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...
Read More ShareMedia release: Federal Enviro Law fails on climate, extinction and accountability
April 29, 2020
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...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE 31/03/20: Taxpayer cash shouldn’t be splashed on Gunner Government pipedream
March 31, 2020
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...
Read More ShareRisky wet-season fracking condemned
November 28, 2019
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...
Read More ShareWe need a Climate Change Act - now
November 01, 2019
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...
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