Policy & Advocacy

Water management in the Northern Territory keeps making headlines, as it has done so almost every year for the past decade.  This regular run of water controversies occur regardless of which party is in...

We’ve taking the Minister for the Environment to court over the Singleton Station water licence. The licence will destroy huge swathes of groundwater-dependent ecosystems across a vast arid area. It is too big to be...

Water is our most precious resource, and is essential to all life. Right now, there is significant and longstanding water insecurity in remote Indigenous communities, including due to the fact that drinking water is...

The Nolans Project is a proposed rare earths mine and processing operation near Aileron, just 135kms north of Alice Springs.  This development, owned by mineral exploration company Arafura Resources, is potentially one of the...

The purpose of the Western Davenport Water Allocation Plan is to ensure that water resources are managed in a way that protects and maintains environmental and cultural values, allocates water for future public water...

In 2018, the Gunner Government committed to ensuring there would be no net increase in greenhouse gas emissions from any fracking in the NT. The draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets Policy and Technical Guidelines...

ALEC welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft Northern Territory parks 2022-2052 Masterplan. We acknowledge the extensive work completed by the Department in producing this consultation paper. However, we have concerns with the Parks...

Water is our most precious resource, and is essential to all life. ALEC and the Environment Centre NT believe the Northern Territory’s water regulatory system is failing, and is inadequate to meet the current...

The Northern Territory Government is reforming its outdated mining laws. ALEC welcomes these vital reforms, potentially the largest changes to mining laws that the NT has seen in decades, which will have substantial impacts...

The Northern Territory Government (NTG) is developing a policy which applies to new and expanding projects that require environmental approval under the Environment Protection Act 2019. The Northern Territory Government needs to rapidly decarbonise...