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This campaign focused on helping the general public to live more sustainably in the Northern Territory.
The Environment Centre NT seeks legal protection for the harbour and its catchment through a regional plan established under the Planning Act, stronger environment and pollution laws, a ban on canal estates and major mangrove clearing, a network of protected areas around the harbour foreshore from Lee Point to Wagait Beach, and a major green infrastructure program to upgrade or replace third world standard sewage treatment and port facilities
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 campaing focused on the effects of coal mining in causing cracking of stream beds and under swamps, with water loss and pollution in several NSW drinking water catchments.
The Climate and Health Alliance is promoting a new tool being rolled out internationally to help the health sector respond to its responsibility to reduce emissions and to minimise its environmental footprint to protect and promote health: Global Green and Health Hospitals Network.