Highlights this week include Tamboran fast-tracking Beetaloo sub-basin evaluation, Core Lithium posting first-year operational profits, Empire Energy getting enhanced C-3H Flow Rates, and Avenira and ALEEES entering an agreement to construct a lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) battery cathode manufacturing facility at the proposed Middle Arm Industrial Precinct.
A proposed multi-storey apartment complex for Territory seniors may not go ahead without government support, Council of the Ageing NT says, amid high costs for a rezoning application before a proper development application can be heard.
A remote Territory mine site went into lockdown after two workers were injured following a group of unknown people breaking-in on Saturday morning, the company had said.
The continued sustainability and prosperity of the Territory’s estimated $270 million recreational fishing and tourism sector is dependent on catch quotas and licence buybacks being introduced, along with gillnets being phased out, the Amateur Fishermen’s Association of the Northern Territory has said.
NT WorkSafe has dropped industrial manslaughter charges and lesser charges against Theofilos Kalidonis, director of Kalidonis NT Pty Ltd, three years after a workplace fatality in Maningrida.
Roughly 2,000 public servants are still in a state of uncertainty after the NT Government continues to stall on approving the funds for their backpay despite an agreement having been settled with the workers, the union representing the workers says.
Fortescue Energy has laid off all its NT staff members except former chief minister Michael Gunner who appears to have been promoted in the quiet shake-up to “director of business development in Australia and New Zealand”.
In the last week the NT Government has released 10 tenders, including Upgrade Fire Detection System Library & Gym in Darwin High School. Click here to see the full list.
Highlights this week include Lithium Plus reporting successful drilling at its Perseverance prospect, Tennant Creek Geophysical Programme making headway, KGL appoints CEO for Jervois copper project, and NT Government’s mineral exploration expenditure for the fiscal year 2022-23 surged to $200.1 million.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler has exempted an unspecified number of government buildings from requiring occupancy certificates, while seeming to indicate none had been inspected by certifiers almost 15 months after the government announced a taskforce to investigate non-compliant buildings, and more than 13 months after the Territory’s anti-corruption watchdog launched its own investigation.
Yolngu traditional owners have stopped commercial barramundi fishing using gillnets in Indigenous waters in north-east Arnhem Land, the Northern Land Council has said.
Bonza Aviation has announced it will add three new routes between Darwin and Alice Springs and interstate destinations but the Fyles Government has not said how much it was costing the taxpayer to attract the airline.
