Communities are demanding the NT Country Liberal Party bin its Territory Coordinator proposal, which gives unprecedented powers to unelected bureaucrats and ignores First Nations voices and solutions. Stephen W Enciso reports.
Environment Centre NT
The campaign to save the coastal Binybara/Lee聽Point聽site from being destroyed for a Defence Housing Australia project聽continues. Jim McIlroy reports.
Plaintiff and Tiwi Elder Dennis Tipakalippa said he was聽鈥渢he happiest man alive鈥 after the Federal Court ruled Santos鈥 approval to drill for gas in the sea north of the Tiwi Islands was invalid.聽Rebecca Parker reports.
Senior Lawman and Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa is challenging the federal offshore oil and gas regulator鈥檚 decision to approve Santos鈥 plan to drill the Barossa gas field.聽Naish Gawen reports.
The Federal Court has overturned the federal government鈥檚 decision to allow a $180 million deep sea port on Melville Island near Darwin without an environmental assessment.
Approval of the Port Melville oil and gas marine supply base on the banks of the near pristine Apsley Strait was reversed on October 21 after legal action by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) on behalf of Environment Centre NT (ECNT).
The decision means the operation of the base at Port Melville now has no Commonwealth approval and all operations must cease. 聽