Land Clearing

4 March 2005

Trans-Territory gas pipeline will irreversibly damage Top End

Public comment on EIS closes today

The Environment Centre of the NT (ECNT) says the proposed trans-Territory pipeline (TTP) would have major environmental, social and cultural impacts along its 940 km route from Wadeye to Alcan’s Gove alumina refinery.

Speaking at the close of public comment on the Alcan/Woodside environmental impact assessment (EIS), ECNT Freshwater Campaigner Dr Gary Scott said the EIS was a fatally flawed document that left far too many questions unanswered and failed to show that the project was the best option for supplying gas to Gove, or of net benefit to the Territory.

Some of the major impacts which ECNT and/or the EIS have identified include:

These and other serious impacts are barely addressed in the very inadequate Woodside/Alcan EIS. The company’s EIS is lacking in key information, detailed plans, and scientific data, and does not provide any sound basis upon which government or the public can assess the project, let alone approve it.

ECNT is calling on both the NT and the Commonwealth governments, both of whom are involved in the project assessment process, to put a hold on the assessment process pending a strategic review of the pipeline project, including less damaging alternatives, and pending the completion by Woodside/Alcan of a much more thorough and detailed EIS.

Further comment: Charles Roche 8941 7439
Email: ecnt@octa4.net.au

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