Letters for the Environment Central Australia
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LECA is a community letter writing group based in Mparntwe - unceded central Arrernte country. https://www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/
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 · 5d agoStop the rollout of hyperscale data centres in the NT www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Stop the rollout of hyperscale data centres in the NT www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Stop the Rollout of Hyperscale Datacentres in the Northern Territory
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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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Disgraceful. NT and Qld are national and global sellouts. It’s why we need urgent national rules and a moratorium until then. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy
Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket
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This stands out as an island of care in the dismal, violent and rapacious NT political landscape. www.ntnews.com.au/news/alice-s...
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.
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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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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Why we need strong National laws and a moratorium on data centres until then.
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
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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Northern Territory Minister unwittingly makes a most compelling argument for why we need strong National Datacentre laws. www.facebook.com/share/v/1VBh...
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
Thunder Bay, Ontario, also known as Collins burned to the ground in a wildfire this week. Over 300,000 hectares have burned in this fire. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/18/a...
Fleeing Canada’s wildfires: They thought there was no immediate danger. Then a wall of smoke arrived | CNN
Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.
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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
Territory day = personal fireworks day. With every explosion the parrots cry out :(
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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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/...
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!
Breaking News! Code Yikes! How hot is this El Nino? Not only is the sea-surface temperatures in the Nino 3.4 region on June 13th the hottest on record since 1982, the temperature is a mind-blowing 0.72°C hotter than any previous June 13th.
There are plants flowering in my local area now, in June, that normally flower in November, and this article from the national broadcaster uses words like “enjoy” and “rejoice” to describe weather which is frankly terrifying, and doesn’t even mention climate change: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Parts of Australia on track for warmest start to winter on record
An influx of humid, tropical air has resulted in a remarkably warm and relatively wet start to winter across Australia.
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Amazing map (note does not seem to include data from Australia in model training) phys.org/news/2025-07...
Underground maps reveal 90% of mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas
Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal communities.
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‘Environmental’ NGO EOFY appeal season begins Each year the grandiose (and flagrantly deceptive) claims mount. Donate with eyes wide open!
Why did WA EPA recommend approval of Black Mountain Energy fracking plans when an independent expert scientific comm found BME made a “limited & disjointed assessment” & reached “largely unsupported” conclusions" abt potential impacts to surface water, groundwater & groundwater dependent ecosystems❓
Concerns over US company’s plan to frack world’s most intact tropical savanna in WA revealed
Federal environment department says Black Mountain Energy has provided insufficient data as it seeks to drill 20 gas wells in the Kimberley region
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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhy has WA EPA recommended in favour of approving fracking in the Kimberley by Black Mountain Energy? Lock The Gate: “So far only three wells have been fracked in the Kimberley, & they have led to serious issues including exposed radioactive wastewater and greenhouse gas leaks”