'Sporadic and infrequent' inspections by the Northern Territory's mining regulator contributed to a fuel spill at a Rio Tinto mine site last year, according to an NT EPA report.
Development proponents in the NT wil be able to opt-in to a process under which Territory Government personnel will quantify environmental impacts of new projects and their ministers will then specify offsets via licence and approval conditions, under a policy to be trialled for two years.
An independent report has confirmed some areas of Darwin Harbour have been polluted during loading of a ship with copper concentrate from mining company OzMinerals.
Northern Territory legislation and policy deals inadequately with sustainability and it is 'no longer acceptable' to pay lip service to it, says a new Northern Territory EPA discussion paper.