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18 January 2006

Challenging year ahead for the NT environment. Greenhouse, uranium, water, land clearing, invasive species and marine conservation will dominate NT agenda in 2006, the Environment Centre NT said today.

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2 December 2005

Darwin and Alice join international day of action on global warming. Top End and Alice Springs environment groups will be participating in Saturday’s world-wide day of action on global warming. The day coincides with the UN conference on global warming currently taking place in Canada.

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8 September 2005

New report challenges wisdom of Federal Ministers’ nuclear power claims. A coalition of environment and public heath groups has today released a report that challenges the often repeated and rarely questioned mantra that nuclear power is 'clean' and a potential fix for climate change. The report is called 'Nuclear Energy: No Solution to Climate Change' (see www.foe.org.au).

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27 July 2005

Howard government must be held accountable for impacts of climate change. The Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT) says the Howard government must be held accountable for the potentially catastrophic impacts of global warming and climate change outlined in the Climate Change: Risk and Vulnerability report it released yesterday.

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29 June 2005

NT Environment Centre counters nuclear misinformation campaign. ECNT has commenced a community awareness campaign to counter the misinformation being put out by the nuclear industry and the Federal government in support of increased uranium mining and nuclear power. Our new information brochure explains why nuclear is NOT the solution to global warming (or anything else).

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24 June 2005

NT’s greenhouse shame. The NT has seen an extraordinary 72% increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2002, according to a report just released by the Australian Government Greenhouse Office. The report presents the latest available figures and reveals that the NT is responsible for emitting almost 90 tonnes of greenhouse gases per person compared to the Australian average of 27.5 tonnes.
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