Adrian Tomlinson
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social
Independent environmental advocate in central Australia, living on unceded Arrernte lands. I have a particular interest and experience in water and concern about invasives, persecution of dingoes and bad laws/policy.
This is important wherever you live given the scale and lack of rules for datacentres proposed in the NT. And that the NT is undermining efforts in other states to stop them using fossil fuels.
Letters for the Environment Central Australia@letterscentral.bsky.social · 6d agoStop the rollout of hyperscale data centres in the NT www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Scientists found that ingredients from certain #flea and #tick medications for #pets pass thru pet feces into the environment, exposing other, non-threatening organisms to #toxic chemicals. This is bad for the #environment and bad for the food chain! academic.oup.com/etc/article/... 1/2
Prolonged fecal elimination of isoxazoline antiparasitic drugs in dogs and cats: is there a risk for nontarget species?
Abstract. Isoxazoline antiparasitic drugs are a new class of ectoparasiticides used in veterinary medicine for companion animals. Four active substances—fl
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It’s pretty hard to express how wild Territory Fireworks night is. Living amongst trees with hollows, dogs who are frightened by them and finding them pretty triggering myself this is a relief.
Letters for the Environment Central Australia@letterscentral.bsky.social · last wk.This stands out as an island of care in the dismal, violent and rapacious NT political landscape. www.ntnews.com.au/news/alice-s...
This stands out as an island of care in the dismal, violent and rapacious NT political landscape. www.ntnews.com.au/news/alice-s...
Viv Oldfield, the NTs largest pastoral lease holder, just brought the pastoral lease title for Murranji and owns a drilling company. The NT gov does the bidding of ‘cattle kings’ like we live in a monarchy - they wouldn’t go ahead if this industry actually opposed it. www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
NT government opens door to AI industry powered by Beetaloo gas
The Northern Territory government wants to develop the "data centre capital of the globe" and says natural gas will be key to succeeding.
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1. Hot water and related enhanced stratification -- due to fossil fuel global heating. 2. Nutrient pollution from Murray River flood in 2023 -- due to land clearing, soil erosion, and fertiliser runoff. 3. Additional nutrient input from the record 2023–24 coastal upwelling event.
This is why we need strong national laws governing data centres and a moratorium until they’re in place. NT politicians are a sovereign risk. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Politician’s claim Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if NT doesn’t use more groundwater criticised by experts
NT minister for trade and business Robyn Cahill makes scientifically inaccurate claims while pushing to make territory ‘datacentre capital of the globe’
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Robyn Cahill Minister for Trade, Business & Asian Relations Minister for International Education, Migration and Population Minister for Workforce Development Minister for Advanced Manufacturing Minister for Children and Families Minister Child Protection Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w agoA government official in Australia says the Northern Territory needs data centres to use lots of water so......the Earth's axis doesn't flip
Finding out about the approval of datacentres through stockmarket announcements is a new low for Australia. Out of control, @kirstyhowey.bsky.social + team =👏🏻 for moratorium call. fyi @cameronwilson.bsky.social
Adrian Tomlinson@adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 2w agoWhere was the public consultation and competitive tendering for this 2GW, gas spewing and water guzzling monstrosity? www.energyclubnt.com.au/news/13655585
Where was the public consultation and competitive tendering for this 2GW, gas spewing and water guzzling monstrosity? www.energyclubnt.com.au/news/13655585
Energy Club NT - BEETALOO ENERGY LAUNCHES BEETALOO DIGITAL AND SECURES LAND IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY FOR PROPOSED INTEGRATED POWER AND DATA CENTRE DEVELOPMENT
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Wait, this is spilt grain that *we eat*, or feed grain that animals for human consumption eat? WTAF?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoResearcher says pesticides could be harming Carnaby's black cockatoos
Strong resistance. We feel the cattle industry inverting the reality of their impacts on arid and semi-arid lands and seeking to expand their access to public lands here too. westernwatersheds.org/2026/07/bure...
Bureau of Land Management’s Controversial Grazing Proposal Sparks More than 100,000 Public Comments - Western Watersheds Project
For immediate release: July 13, 2026 Media contacts: Josh Osher, Western Watersheds Project, josh@westernwatershes.org, (406) 220-2883 Chandra Rosenthal, PEER, crosenthal@peer.org, (303) 898-0798 Jon...
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Signs you listened to industry: standards and incentives Signs you listened to the public: laws and penalties/exclusions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment
PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech
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The 2026 Alice Springs Show! Thanks to everyone who supported the stall & to the people and country that donated such beautiful objects of creation - wood and stone, foods & medicines, aromas & tactile textures Thank you to Ilparpa, persecuted ground, the power of which gives us fortitude and hope
2 years on from weed declaration - when will we see buffel grass info signs in the NT? Here are some examples from SA.
Where is the proposed AI data centre powered by SunCable’s giant Muckaty solar precinct going to be built? Where will they get the water to cool it (the largest ground water licence in Australia has been issued at Singleton)? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI datacentres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader but critics are concerned about scale
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In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.
Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?
Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees the legal right to exist, thrive and be represented in court. This is the first time any insect has been recognized as a…
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To the right - buffel grass To the left and on the hills - where it has been removed Incredible how the plants, insects and reptiles flourish so quickly after buffel is removed, the seeds must be there just waiting for a chance!
If you don’t like one of these you shouldn’t like any of them. Cross promotion of colonialism, GHGs, American interference and animal cruelty bank rolled by the duplicitous NTG. (Link to case card in comments.) www.rspca.org.au/latest-news/...
Buffel grass "has significant impacts on biodiversity, people’s health and safety and on cultural sites and practices, especially for Aboriginal people in central Australia. The case for recognising it as an invasive weed of national significance is compelling." theconversation.com/should-this-...
Should this plant be declared one of the worst weeds in Australia?
Without a national policy, the spread of smothering buffel grass will continue unchecked.
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Wondering @greenpeace.org @nickofnz.bsky.social if you have a problem with over 6 million pigs in Denmark, why don't you have a problem with over 29.7 million cattle in Australia? Human pop: 27 mill. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/i... fyi @adriantomlinson.bsky.social @zdboren.bsky.social #agriculture
Greenpeace International 🌍@greenpeace.org · 2mo agoThere are more pigs per person in Denmark than anywhere else on Earth, thanks to its intensive industrial farming systems. A political promise on paper is just the beginning. We need a food system that respects nature, animals, and local communities. #StopBigAg www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
‘According to ABC reporting, the family of White released a statement that read: “We have got no hope. When will we have our justice? How can we keep living like this?’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NT police won’t be charged over Kumanjayi White’s death as Lidia Thorpe criticises lack of justice
NT police commissioner acknowledges outcome causes ‘significant distress’ for 24-year-old Warlpiri man’s family and wider community
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Expressions of interest to join the NT EPA open until 27 May With few other checks on a derelict NT Government, a stream of upcoming projects within the NT EPA’s purview and comparatively strong legislation, this is great opportunity to hold the line. ntepa.nt.gov.au/news/2026/lo...
Looking to make a difference?
Expressions of interest to join the NT EPA as a non-executive board member are now open.
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The Territory Chief Minister is a lawyer by training, the outrageousness isn’t lost on her. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn
Police will be able to question children without an adult present and hold them after being charged under draft laws introduced by the CLP
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In 2023, then Enviro Minister Plibersek said the heart of EPBC reforms—National Environmental Standards—would set "legally enforceable requirement for decision making – that approval decisions deliver a positive net outcome for nature" @euanritchie.bsky.social & I examine the reversal of promises
Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market | Euan Ritchie and Yung En Chee
One must ask why Labor is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of voters
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A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...
This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse
As Katie Martin has noted in the FT this morning, there is something exceptionally strange going on in the world's financial markets at the moment, and we should be taking note. Since 30th March this...
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