@adriantomlinson
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.
Amazeballs🤯--the world gets fossil fuelled climate disasters, repeat global mass coral bleaching, toxic algal blooms that kill marine life over tens of thousands of sq km, destruction of irreplaceable Indigenous rock art cultural heritage
Meg O'Neill gets a fancy 11.7 million pound pay check 🤬🤬🤬
THE DRAFT ALICE SPRINGS WATER ALLOCATION PLAN IS OUT FOR COMMENT UNTIL MARCH 17!
This plan breaks from precedent and significantly increases risks to our water supply
Find our information and submission writing booklet here www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...
At home in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
The overwhelming majority of Americans do not want genocide and endless war. And they know that the Iranian people, the Palestinian people, and all people of the region and the world should be in control of their own futures, and not at the whims of U.S. and Israeli warmongering.
So Albanese:
- supports [unspecified] US action against Iran, even if illegal
- "stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression”, but has said nothing about Trump's or Netanyahu's oppression
- is again proving we are a vassal state.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The US and Israel have, in fact, begun an illegal war with Iran. The US lured Iran into talks and seemingly reached an agreement that Iran would end its uranium enrichment. As of 8:00 AM, Israel and the US launched a surprise attack on Iran with the intent of assassinating its leadership
We wrote to King Charles re Connelly’s appointment as his representative.
This is his response.
The English Monarchy can’t comment on the rise of facism anymore now than they did in the 1930s.
What is the point of the NT and Federal ALP?
They’re cowards at best, at worse quietly agree with the CLP.
Either way they’re not functioning as an opposition / opponent to the facist, ecocidal NT CLP government.
The Governor-General’s office said last night neither it or the AFP raised any concerns.
ntindependent.com.au/territorians...
Why?
Companies don’t set aside billions because the stakes are small.
They do it because the product is enormously profitable and the risk is priced in.
This is the economics of modern environmental conflict.
The NT ‘environment’ minister receiving some deserved flack for releasing a draft buffel grass weed management that gives a free pass to the pastoral industry (the source) to keep on planting and spreading buffel grass.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The normalization of planetary manipulation proposals is itself the warning sign. That’s why the Doomsday Clock keeps edging toward midnight.
So Alcoa illegally cleared the ONLY Jarrah Forests in the whole world, paid the govt a bribe and are allowed to keep clearing. The fact each individual old growth tree the wood was worth about 50k. We now have no old growth , they decimated 3 different species.of animals .
Reductio ad absurdum proof of industry capture. Cattle producers are the source of buffel grass.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Alcoa spokesperson says they'll “increase annual rates of new rehabilitation to 1,000 hectares per year by 2027”
Claims of being able to "rehabilitate" Australia's unique jarrah forests after strip-mining are absolutely BULLSHIT
But Alcoa has no qualms lying about it (👀 next post)
This is not bringing the jarrah forest back.
$55m for an unprecedented EPCA Act decision that mining the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust is in the national interest.
We thought conserving unique northern jarrah forest was.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If the NT gets its way the Barkly will look like a Texan dead zone with its never ending centre pivots and fracking wells (see last photo).
This same area is subject to 10GL/yr groundwater licences (free) and massive clearing for cotton.
www.ntnews.com.au/business/nor...
AUSTRALIAN MAJOR LANDOWNERS WHO OWN MORE LAND THAN BILL GATES. 🧵
How much land does Bill have? Around 275,000 acres, according to: landreport.com/land-report-...
Why is this important? Because cattle owners automagically fund lobbyists through cattle sales. #cop30 #cop31
@ipes-food.org
#1 = 🧵⬇️
‘The cattle sector says the draft buffel grass weed management plan provides certainty, but will push for buffel's weed classification to be overturned.’
This is the DRAFT plan they monstered be allowed an industry wide permit to keep planting buffel and exempted from responsibilities in the plan.
We also know that if you can eradicate buffel grass in arid Australia, you get a return of the native understorey plants and provide much more seed for granivorous (seed-eating) native fauna such as ants, birds and small mammals:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Freedom-of-information documents showed the resources minister, Madeleine King, had met at least 17 times with Japanese LNG representatives.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
@fahad-s-ali.bsky.social How is it that glyphosate on crops in Australia + NZ are "perfectly safe" yet it's an environmental & health crime in Lebanon?
www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/che...
The choice of David Connolly as Administrator has become political poison for Lia and her CLP team that has only served to divide and harm the community while the government attempted this week to silence debate, while inadvertently shooting itself in the foot.
ntindependent.com.au/connolly-app...
Just diving into some GIPAs at this wonderful new resource dingonetwork.org.au/foi
Who knew I was living rent-free in the minds and emails of some. In the public interests of misinformation prevention, and as always, those responsible are always welcome to pick up the phone!
