Policy & Advocacy

The Federal Government has a vision for a gas-fired recovery in response to the COVID-19 economic downturn and plans to invest billions of dollars of public money into this failing industry. ALEC’s joint submission...

Decarbonisation and the expansion of renewable energy are essential in mitigating the impacts of climate change. ALEC supports Sun Cable’s plan to build the world’s largest solar farm in the Territory, provided it brings local...

Alice Springs has among the highest rates of water consumption in Australia. With close to 30,000 households and businesses using water from a finite groundwater supply drawn from the ancient Amadeus Basin Aquifers, careful...

ALEC made a submission in response to Central Petroleum’s Northern Territory Drilling Campaign. Central Petroleum wants to drill for gas and oil in the Amadeus Basin and has applied to the Northern Territory government...

Thank you to the hundreds of people who signed the petition calling on Environment Minister Eva Lawler to intervene in Fortune Agribusiness’ annual 40 billion litre water licence application. If granted, this would be...

The Federal Government has introduced a bill that proposes a number of changes to the EPBC Act, our national environmental laws. The Government is seeking to make legislative changes at the eleventh hour, before...

Safe drinking water is fundamental for maintaining public health and supporting healthy communities.  ALEC’s review of the regulatory framework surrounding water use in the Northern Territory revealed an inadequate system unable to address the...

Fortune Agribusiness recently applied for an annual 40,000 megalitre water licence from the NT Government to develop irrigated fruit and vegetable crops on Singleton Station, located within the Western Davenport water control district. ALEC made a submission calling...

Australian lives and livelihoods have been hit hard by the pandemic. To help coordinate a response and reduce the economic impacts of the pandemic, the Federal Government established the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (the...

Our national environment laws – the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation or EPBC Act – is failing to protect the environment in the Northern Territory. The once-in-a-decade review is our chance to strengthen them.  In...