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World Environment Day Expo
Come and celebrate our unique environment at the World Environment Day Expo at the Museum and Art Gallery NT, Fannie Bay, on Sunday June 3rd.
Relax on the lawns adjacent to the sea and be inspired by the environmental work being undertaken by different groups and agencies in Darwin, across the Top End, and around the NT.
Special features include:
• Information stalls and displays with lots of great ideas and resources
• Workshops on key NT environmental issues
• Lunchtime forum with Prof. Ian Lowe about Australia’s environmental challenges
• Live music by local artists
• Food and drinks (served with eco-friendly ware)
• Children’s area with lots of environmental activities
………………..and much more!
Stalls and events run from 10.30am to 5pm. See www.ecnt.org for more details, or call the Environment Centre on 89811984.
Mr Timothy
Friends of McArthur River are in mourning at the loss of a good friend and strong activist. Mr Timothy (who cannot be identified further for cultural reasons) died on Friday after a lifetime of struggle for his people and country.
Mr Timothy, aged only 43, was a leader amoungst his people and the key spokesperson in the campaign to save the McArthur River. It is a tragedy to lose Mr Timothy, and the Northern Territory and Australia are diminished by his premature death.
Our thoughts are with Mr Timothy’s family.
Caution – Whilst efforts have been made to remove reference to and images of Mr Timothy from this site, it may still contain reference to him.
NT greenhouse emissions: big costs, big opportunities
According to the NT government, by ~2010 the NT’s emissions will almost double compared to 1990 levels (1990 is the international benchmark year). This doubling will occur mainly as a result of the planned completion of the Darwin LNG plant and the Alcan refinery expansion at Gove.
These two projects alone, when completed, will increase the Territory’s greenhouse pollution levels by a massive ~35%! No one should be accepting, let alone proud, of such colossal increases from one-off industrial projects – which are only ‘economic’ because overseas-owned corporations want to maximize profits by accelerating the export (and exhaustion) of our non-renewable resources.
A big opportunity!
Northern Australia, including the NT, is home to the world’s greatest remaining expanse of relatively intact savanna woodlands. The value of these woodlands as a global carbon sink – in addition to all their other values – is only just starting to be understood and acknowledged. Working with the WA and Queensland state governments, national and international governments, businesses and non-government organisations, the NT government should lead the way in developing an international carbon offsets scheme that will pay Indigenous and non-Indigenous landholders across northern Australia to protect and look after their native forests/woodlands as an effective global carbon sink – rather than clearing it for woodchip plantations (Tiwi islands) or to run cattle which produce high levels of the most serious greenhouse gas, methane.
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