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...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) has serious concerns the Northern Territory Government is being unduly influenced by industry in the current regulatory reform process, by today announcing changes to how environmental decisions are...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre welcomes the release of the Northern Territory Government’s Climate Change Discussion paper, but has serious concerns that the paper downplays the urgency of the situation and the role of...

The Northern Territory’s Gunner Government is actively choosing to further damage the climate with the announcement today of a NT Gas Task Force and Five Point NT Gas Strategy at the South East Asia...

The Northern Territory Labor Party is to be commended for voting to adopt a policy of net zero emissions generated in the Northern Territory by 2050, and to ban fracking at their annual conference...