A Northern Territory EPA inquiry into spills at Darwin's East Arm Wharf has identified major loopholes in environmental assessment and approvals processes, lax port practices and poor enforcement, triggering a defensive response from Darwin Port Corporation.
The final EIS for the massive Ichthys LNG project has partially undermined the gas industry's claims that the sector should be exempt from a carbon price because its exports are substituted for far more emissions-intensive coal and oil.
The Northern Territory is set to introduce a container deposit regime in Australia for bottles, cans and cartons - the first in the nation since South Australia launched its scheme in 1975.
'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.
