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Centralian Advocate, Tuesday, February 4, 2014 — 7

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Northern Territory

Environment Protection Authority

DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINE

The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority

(NT EPA) invites the public, community and industry to provide

comment and feedback on the draft guidelines related to

waste discharge licensing under the Water Act.

The draft guideline is available on the NT EPA website at

www.nt.gov.au/envirocomment or by contacting the NT EPA

office on 8924 4041 during business hours.

How to provide comment/feedback:

1. Download your copy of the draft guideline from the

NT EPA website or contact the office for a copy.

2. Complete the submission form from the website or by

contacting the office.

3. Send your submission form to one of the following by

5pm, Monday 3 March 2014.

Email: NTEPA.Consult@nt.gov.au

Post: NT EPA, GPO Box 3675, Darwin NT, 0801

All comments collated on the draft guideline will be made

publicly available on the NT EPA website. If you do not want

your identity, your comments or parts of your comments made

publicly available, this should be clearly indicated in your

submission.

NEWS

A chance to rise and shineLIFESTYLE REPORTER

Monika O'Hanlon

Centralian Advocate journalist and weather buff Nick Kossatch is ready for competition from Sunrise

Picture: JUSTIN BRIERTY

THURSDAY morning’ssunrise is going to bethat little bit brighter, withthe weather crew fromChannel 7’s Sunrise comingto Alice Springs.

The television show’sweather presenter, EdwinaBartholomew, will be on topof ANZAC Hill from 4.30amwith her team to present alive broadcast looking overthe town.

They will be doing livecrosses from Uluru thismorning and Kings Canyontomorrow, before hitting Al-ice Springs on Thursday.

The Centralian Advo-

cate’s resident weather buff,Nick Kossatch, said theSunrise team could expecttypical Red Centre weathercome Thursday.

‘‘It’s going to be humidtoday, with a possibilityof an afternoon thunder-storm this afternoon,’’Kossatch said.

‘‘Their stay in CentralAustralia will be mostlyclear and the weathershould return to a morenormal dry heat, with mid tohigh 30s come Wednesdayand Thursday,’’ he said.

‘‘The weather could getinteresting in a week’s timebecause there are a fewtropical lows forming in theGulf of Carpentaria andthe Coral Sea so it mayinfluence weather in Cen-tral Australia.’’

With the possibility ofrain on our doorstep, ScottPullyblank, the AliceSprings Desert Park cu-rator of life science, said itcould stir activity amongthe wildlife.

‘‘The main animals we

notice here are the frogs.Particularly the big greenones, which are the CentralAustralian green tree frogs,or Litoria gilleni,’’ MrPullyblank said.

‘‘When the barometricpressure changes, they willrespond and start calling,’’he said.

‘‘With ants you often seea lot of activity whenit’s about to rain. Theyreally start moving andaltering things.’’

So if you want a chanceto be on television, jointhe Sunrise team at ANZACHill between 4.30am and7am on Thursday.

Don’t forget your signsand banners, and keep youreyes and ears on alert forstrange animal activity,which could signal on-coming rain.

Locals add voice tooutcry on shark killMORE than 20 protesters turned out for arally against the West Australian shark cullin Alice Springs on Saturday.

The protest and petition was at SmithPark opposite the Alice Springs Courts.

Local business owners, such as JasonWright from new nightclub Evolution, gotbehind the rally.

Unfortunately, the club’s Facebook pagereceived a negative comment from some-one who saw no need for the rally, as thereare no sharks in Alice Springs.

Still, media from across Australia wereinterested in the Alice Springs protest, as ithighlighted how the whole country hadembraced the message.

Around 2000 people protested at Sydney’sManly Beach on Saturday.

Shark attack victim Anthony Joyce, 41,told protesters he would love to meet themonstrous shark that took a chunk of hisfoot so he could pat it and tell it: ‘‘ThankGod you didn’t take any more.’’

The Alice Springs and Manly Beachprotests were among a dozen gatheringsaround the nation.

Our heat boiling over southHEAT from Central Aust-ralia has been blamed forbringing heatwave condit-ions across southeast Aust-ralia over the Januaryperiod.

In the first week of 2014,temperatures climbedtowards 50C in the NorthernTerritory, Western Austra-lia, Queensland and NewSouth Wales.

Melbourne set a new re-

cord with four consecutivedays of temperatures ex-ceeding 41C.

Victorian AmbulanceService had a 700 per centrise in number of call-outsfor cardiac arrests whentemperatures spiked atalmost 44C during theheatwave.

About 203 deaths were re-ported to the coroner, morethan twice the average.

Paramedics treated morethan 500 people for heatexhaustion, and about 60kids had to be rescued fromlocked cars.

This comes on top of 2013being the hottest Australianyear on record, with tem-peratures well off the chart.A risk attribution study re-vealed they were well out-side natural climate varia-bility, possibly caused by theaddition of climate change.

Nick’s tipson weatherTUESDAY

Chance of late thunder,

humidity and mid 30’s.

WEDNESDAY

Fine and sunny mid to

high 30’s

THURSDAY

Fine and sunny mid to

high 30’s

FRIDAY

Mid 30’s slight chance

of a shower

Beaming onlineright from spaceOPTUS has signed a five-year agreementwith NBN Co to operate two satellites thatwill deliver high-speed broadband to ruraland remote Australia.

The telco will provide tracking, tel-emetry and control services for the newsatellites, planned to launch into orbit in2015 as part of the National BroadbandNetwork.

Matt Dawson, from NBN Co’s satellitedivision, said the satellites would deliver adedicated broadband service for 200,000homes, farms and businesses in remoteparts of the country.

‘‘The NBN Co satellite service is key tobridging the divide between the city andthe bush,’’ he said in a statement onMonday.

‘‘It can give people in the outback,remote regions and Australia’s overseasterritories access to economic and socialopportunities.’’

The two new Ka-band NBN Co satel-lites will be controlled from Sydney’snorthern suburb of Belrose.

Optus already has five satellites in orbit.