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Letters for the Environment Central Australia

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LECA is a community letter writing group based in Mparntwe - unceded central Arrernte country. www.lettersfortheenvironment.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The cowards who stayed to listen to Mr Genocide included, of course, the Australian delegation. #auspol
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish @Science.org
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One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish
An algal bloom has almost wiped out a unique population of giant cuttlefish—and their stunning mating swarms
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can read the full US submission/directive here, including the arrogant demands that Australia justify to the US government why it is acting to protect Australians from online harm. au.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...
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U.S. Government Response to the Australian Consultation on the “Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026”
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Get these US thugs out of Pine Gap. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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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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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As his government approves its 37th new fossil fuel project
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No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Jane Doe, pretty hate machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is Reuters cool with Beetaloo fracking @letterscentral.bsky.social? It's called "Reuters is owned by fossil fuels". c/o @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
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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 · 14/09/2026
What the hell is going on with Reuters uncritical promotion of Beetaloo fracking and US involvement? www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Media Watch didn’t explore conflicts of interest ‘Business editor Camden Smith previously worked for the CLP for years & deputy editor Gary Shipway worked for the CLP for decades, while his current partner currently works as an adviser in Ms Finocchiaro’s office’ ntindependent.com.au/nt-news-beet...
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just another day in the NT. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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$40b data centre land granted to firm where NT minister's relative works
The NT deputy chief minister has been spruiking a gas company granted rights to 185 hectares of government land to build a data centre, despite his sister-in-law working for the firm.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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...
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Prescient www.ntnews.com.au/news/beetalo...
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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...
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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)
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
RSPCA considers rodeos inhumane but that doesn’t stop this weird glamorising by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Mount Isa Rodeo: broncs, bulls and exceptional horsemanship – in pictures
The 2026 championships on Kalkadoon country, Queensland draw a large and diverse field, including a showcase for First Nations talent
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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High Court rules in favour of native title holders fighting NT water licence
The High Court decides in favour of native title holders fighting to overturn a water licence that had been granted to a cattle station in Central Australia.
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Adrian Tomlinson @adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Stop the rollout of hyperscale data centres in the NT www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Rollout of Hyperscale Datacentres in the Northern Territory
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U. Nomi @uniofnomi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This stands out as an island of care in the dismal, violent and rapacious NT political landscape. www.ntnews.com.au/news/alice-s...
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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.
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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...
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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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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
FAAAAAARK ! #JustThrowingusInTheBinForCash #YouCantEatMoneyDickheads #auspol
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Why we need strong National laws and a moratorium on data centres until then.
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Adrian Tomlinson @adriantomlinson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Where was the public consultation and competitive tendering for this 2GW, gas spewing and water guzzling monstrosity? www.energyclubnt.com.au/news/13655585
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Northern Territory Minister unwittingly makes a most compelling argument for why we need strong National Datacentre laws. www.facebook.com/share/v/1VBh...
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wait, this is spilt grain that *we eat*, or feed grain that animals for human consumption eat? WTAF?
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Signs you listened to industry: standards and incentives Signs you listened to the public: laws and penalties/exclusions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Territory day = personal fireworks day. With every explosion the parrots cry out :(
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Please sign. c.org/gLwNXBsGyq
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Sign the Petition
Cull the Myths, Not the Dingoes!
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/06/2026
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.
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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/...
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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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!
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/06/2026
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.
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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Amazing map (note does not seem to include data from Australia in model training) phys.org/news/2025-07...
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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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Letters for the Environment Central Australia @letterscentral.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
‘Environmental’ NGO EOFY appeal season begins Each year the grandiose (and flagrantly deceptive) claims mount. Donate with eyes wide open!
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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❓
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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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Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"In a climate-unstable world, where environmental destruction moves faster than traditional litigation, giving mountains legal personality is not radical. It is the most practical tool we have left." www.pressreader.com/india/ht-raj...
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