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This campaign focused on polution problems from McArthur River mine.
This successful campaign opposed uranium mining inside Kakadu National Park.
The Environment Centre NT, together with Borroloola residents Jack Green and Josie Davey (represented by the Environmental Defenders Office) served court proceedings challenging the NT Government’s decision to slash the environmental bond for Glencore’s controversial McArthur River Mine by almost $120 million. 
In May 2014 the Environment Centre NT and Beyond Nuclear Initiative launched a television and social media campaign to raise awareness of the risks that the Muckaty waste dump plan poses to the health of Northern Territory communities, workers, our waterways and the environment.
This successful campaign helped to stop the nomination of the Hale site 70 km south of Alice Springs as the national nuclear waste dumpsite.