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MEDIA RELEASE: Highly Flammable Buffel Grass Threatens the Health of Territorians
December 11, 2023
Peak health organisations, firefighters call for buffel grass weed declaration Mparntwe Alice Springs 11 12 2023 Health services are expecting to be under further pressure as Central Australia faces its worst fire season in...
Read More ShareMedia Release: Organisations across Central Australia call for Weed Declaration on Buffel Grass
November 15, 2023
15 November 2023 Mparntwe Alice Springs Thirty-nine organisations from across Central Australia and nationally have signed an open letter calling on NT Minister for the Environment Kate Worden to declare buffel grass...
Read More ShareMedia Alert, Mparntwe: Buffel weed declaration information night THIS WEDNESDAY @6pm (15.11.23)
November 14, 2023
14 November 2023 Mparntwe Alice Springs Buffel grass weed declaration information night When: 6pm-7.30pm tomorrow, (Wednesday, 15 November) Where: The Roastery (DuYu), 9 Hele Crescent What: This Buffel Grass Weed Declaration...
Read More ShareMEDIA RELEASE: NTG blows it with Georgina Wiso Water Allocation Plan
November 14, 2023
Mparntwe Alice Springs 13/11/2023, updated 17/11/2023 The Northern Territory Government released the Georgina Wiso Water Allocation Plan (GWWAP) on Friday 10th November 2023 at 4pm. By allocating too much water, without any meaningful guidance...
Read More ShareCommunity speaks out against buffel, demand action to prevent catastrophe
August 16, 2023
Community members came together in a snap protest to call on the Northern Territory Government and Federal Government to act decisively on buffel, outside the front of the Member for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour’s office....
Read More Share‘Understatement of the year’: Singleton Station environmental referral underplays impacts to water, culture and environment
February 08, 2023
The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has significant concerns that Fortune Agribusiness'environmental approvals referral to the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NTEPA) completely underplays the significant impacts its development may pose to ecological, hydrological...
Read More ShareEighty percent of Alice residents oppose fracking, government gas subsidies
December 07, 2022
Eighty percent of Alice residents oppose fracking, government gas subsidies Anti-fracking sentiment is strong in the red centre, with a doorknock survey revealing the vast majority of randomly selected residents oppose both the unconventional...
Read More ShareNTG removes protections for ecological and cultural values in biggest water allocation plan ever
November 22, 2022
‘Appallingly short-sighted’. To support fracking and big agriculture, NTG removesprotections for ecological and cultural values in biggest water allocation plan ever The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) opposes the Draft Georgina Wiso Water Allocation...
Read More ShareNT’s first Virtual Power Plant trial launches in Alice Springs
October 12, 2022
50 Alice Springs households are now taking part in the Northern Territory’s First Virtual Power Plant (VPP), launched last week by Northern Territory Minister for Renewables and Energy, Selena Uibo and Minister for Desert...
Read More Share‘This is a crisis’: The Territory’s peak environment groups respond to State of the Environment Report
July 20, 2022
The Northern Territory’s nature is in crisis, the two peak environment bodies of the NorthernTerritory have declared in response to the State of the Environment report released earlier today. The Environment Centre NT and...
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