Correspondence On Claravale Development Project - EPBC 2025/10376 - May 2025 - February 2026.

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This meeting brief documents a July 2025 discussion between the Minister for Environment and Water, Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour MP, and Environment Centre NT regarding land clearing at Claravale Station and Claravale Farm near Pine Creek, Northern Territory. The pastoral company Top End Pastoral Pty Ltd received a permit from the NT Pastoral Land Board on 13 June 2025 to clear approximately 3,000 hectares; the Board subsequently suspended the permit. First Nations representatives raised concerns about water resource pressures from potential fracking, mining, and agricultural developments, impacts on culturally significant sites, and ecosystem effects on livelihoods. ECNT sought ministerial call-in of the land clearing activities under EPBC Act section 70. The department's position emphasized assessing any referral according to the EPBC Act using best available scientific evidence and considering public comments from First Nations peoples.