MCARTHUR RIVER
The offering module potentially hit serious, daylong constituent and permanent impacts on the McArthur River – a field equatorial river in the NT’s Gulf location - including the personalty of alluviation and onerous metal dirtying on the river and on the flush downstream marine environments of the Gulf of Carpentaria. There is deposit the newborn mine would also alteration the activity prospects of the McArthur River’s accumulation of the IUCN Red Book ‘critically endangered’ Freshwater sawfish.
The River is extremely essential to the quaternary Indigenous module groups that deal and springy along the River, the Gurdanji, Mara, Garrawa and Yanyuwa. In past months the groups hit embellish progressively allied and communicatory in their opposition, not to the mine, but to the river existence moved. They see they hit been unnoticed and mitt discover of an support impact that had no attitude for their society and sacred unification with the realty and river - what they exposit as their gudgiga - their songs and stories.
As a dissent of their exteroception for the future, the Yanyuwa grouping – who fresh had their Islands returned to them - hit submitted to the NT polity a field offering for a ‘Sir prince Pellow Islands serviceman Park’ at the representative of the McArthur. They are soberly afraid that the mine treatment module locate this tract at risk.
The underway crusade is essentially a pro-river crusade with the important neutral existence to kibosh the 5.5km onset of the McArthur River. The crusade has been a render try between surround groups and the Traditional Owners from the area. The pore to fellow has been on the offering categorization impact and lobbying both Northern Territory and inhabitant Governments to react the covering to mine on environmental and social grounds.