Arid Lands Environment Centre Archives

Next steps for Arid Lands Environment Centre

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Last week, Environment Minister Joshua Burgoyne announced that the CLP has terminated Arid Lands Environment Centre’s funding agreement with two years left on the contract signed in 2022. The Environment Centre NT based in Darwin on Larrakia Country has also been defunded.ALEC's Policy Officer, Alex Vaughan, joins The Big Brekky to talk about the organisation's next steps, now in its 45th year, and calls for ongoing community support.Vaughan warns that the NT has "some of the weakest environment laws and policies in the country", and NT environment centres play a vital role as 'watchdog', holding government to accountability and scrutiny, and facilitating community participation in government's environmental agendas.He encourages the community to continue connecting and working together to oppose current threats to our environment such as gas fracking in the Beetaloo, extreme changes to legislation, one of Australia’s largest groundwater licences at Singleton Station, buffel grass invasion, fires and climate change.

ALEC calls for water justice

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Alex Vaughan, Policy Officer for Arid Lands Environmental Centre (ALEC) updates The Big Brekky on local environmental concerns, including national water reform, water extraction at Singleton Station and associated risks to the groundwater table, fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, invasive species such buffel grass, and the recent Territory Coordinator proposal from the NT Government. Arid Lands Environment Centre is Central Australia’s peak environmental organisation, defending Australia’s iconic desert country for over 40 years.

Marion Scrymgour & Adrian Tomlinson on NT water concerns

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Concerns are raised over the Georgina Wiso Water Allocation Plan, the safety of NT's water resources, and Buffel Grass, and Labour's commitment to a water trigger is affirmed but not fulfilled.

Buffel Grass Weed Declaration Info Night – Adrian Tomlinson, ALEC

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The recent extended smoke haze over Mparntwe has been alarming, and demonstrates an unprecedented fire season. Adrian Tomlinson, the CEO of Arid Lands Environment Centre chats to the Big Brekky about the ecological issues we face with invasive Buffel Grass' interaction with fire, especially following three years of higher rainfall during the previous years' La Niña events. There are currently discussions around declaring Buffel as a weed, with ALEC calling for a Class A or B Weed Declaration across all areas where Buffel exists (pastoral, indigenous & areas around town). The aim being to stop its growth and spread, and to have a Buffel Grass Managemtn Plan which does not currently exist.ALEC are hosting a Buffel Grass Weed Declaration Information Night with legal experts, policy makers and weed management practitioners, to discuss and answer questions about the Weed Declaration proposal. The event is free, and at the Roastery on Thursday 9th of November, 6pm, all welcome.

Adrian Tomlinson ALEC CEO – Singleton water licence

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The Big Brekky Show spoke with the CEO of Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) Adrian Tomlinson. He discussed how the community can find information about the current state of play regarding the Singleton Station water licence. The approval of the largest groundwater licence in the history of the Northern Territory puts arid ecosystems at risk of being destroyed.

Congratulations Laurie May! Chief Ministers CA Volunteer Of The Year

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On the first of November the Northern Territroy Volunteer of the Year Awards held their Central Australia Awards Ceremony before...