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.
3 more clearing applications in the Barkly. All submitted by Helen Groves who runs an ag. services company, written without engaging an environmental expert. This cookie cuttter system will inevitably see them approved by the NT Pastoral Lands Board. That’s what it does. nt.gov.au/property/lan...
Get these US thugs out of Pine Gap. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
US warns Australia that imposing digital duty of care on big tech would be seen as censorship
Trump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm optout would infringe Americans’ free speech
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Why is Reuters cool with Beetaloo fracking @letterscentral.bsky.social? It's called "Reuters is owned by fossil fuels". c/o @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners
Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia@letterscentral.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat the hell is going on with Reuters uncritical promotion of Beetaloo fracking and US involvement? www.reuters.com/business/ene...
In the NT, relations between the CLP govt and First Nations communities are falling apart and they weren’t strong in the first place. The govt has ceased listening to experts & evidenced based advice. It’s an administration that is off the leash and only the federal govt can do something about it.
Something is seriously wrong in the Northern Territory
One by one, the Aboriginal leaders, organisations and watchdogs the Northern Territory government is supposed to work with are walking away. The Children’s Commissioner has resigned. An Indigenous MP...
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What the hell is going on with Reuters uncritical promotion of Beetaloo fracking and US involvement? www.reuters.com/business/ene...
In Australia's shale patch, Americans bring money, tech and lessons learned
The developers of Australia's Beetaloo Basin are bringing in U.S. equipment, money, expertise and - they hope - U.S.-style scale and efficiencies to reduce costs and make the country's first shale g...
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Not only are they dealing with companies under non-disclosure agreements but with companies with whom they have clear conflicts of interest.
Letters for the Environment Central Australia@letterscentral.bsky.social · 4w agoJust another day in the NT. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Won’t they don’t take they break. Santos frackers are after 750ML/yr groundwater from the tricky northern margin of the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer system, close to springs and groundwater dependent ecosystems. ntg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
This is not a win unless your mission is to destroy as much life as possible “Data centres should use whatever power is available and in the Territory we have an abundance of gas.” Lia Finocchiaro (Petition in comments) www.ntnews.com.au/business/nor...
This is a mind blowing public policy failure. This economic impact assessment found the cost of buffel grass’ spread is 60 times its benefits. Yet the NT Minister preempted his own report, locking in its planting and spread based on a minority cattle lobby recommendation. nt.gov.au/__data/asset...
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Senate Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres - Submissions close 1 September If you want to represent NT concerns, and there are many, there’s a link to the case card below.
Gulp. Hope predictions of a wet spring in the interior hold. It’s galling that NT emergency services promotes burning buffel grass - these fires harm ecosystems and benefit buffel grass. It must be managed as a weed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... (Petition in comments)
Privately run prisons are a failed experiment. Since when did a private company want to fail with falling turnover? We can only imagine how much buttering up of CLP politicians these big prison companies have been doing. www.ntnews.com.au/news/territo...
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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 · 2mo 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 · 2mo agoThis 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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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
