NT Government preparing to restructure the environmental assessment and approvals process

Key Points:

The Northern Territory Government is preparing to roll out a series of consultation briefings and workshops across the Territory after adopting a recommendation to restructure the existing environmental assessment and approvals process.

On 18 November 2015, the Northern Territory Government announced that following on from an independent review on the environmental assessment and approvals processes, a new range of measures would be developed to ensure that this process is comprehensive and transparent.

Environmental management reforms

Over the last few years, the NT Government has been committed to taking steps to reform environmental management in the Northern Territory, the first of which occurred in January 2013 with the establishment of the Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority (NT EPA).