Environmental as Anything Interviews

Bella Burgemeister & Holly Richards on School Strike 4 Climate Actions

Bella Burgemeister is a seasoned youth activist and author who has stepped up to the challenge of joining the class action against the Federal Minister for the Environment to protect young people from the climate change impacts of the proposed Vickery Extension Coal Project. She tells us why and what she hopes to achieve with this action.

https://equitygenerationlawyers.com/cases/sharma-v-minister-for-environment/

Holly Richards is a local leader of the School Strike 4 Climate movement and she shares with us their plans for local action on Friday the 25th of Sept 2020 as well as reflections on her motivations, hopes and experiences of the School Strikes.

https://www.facebook.com/StrikeClimate

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Cate Faehrmann & Sue Higginson sort through the koala killer's "pack of untruths"

This week we are taking a good look at the how NSW National Party's attack on our koalas and attempts at bullying the premier is damaging their credibility and hastening their slide into complete irrelevance. We will have Cate Faehrmann giving us the story from inside the NSW parliamentary "Bear Pit" and Sue Higginson speaking to Meg & Peter Nielsen bringing us the farmers perspective on the koala killer faction of the NSW Coalition government from Celebrating Earth and Art.

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Kate Washington speaks on the ALP plan for protecting NSW koalas

Kate Washington is the NSW Shadow Minister for Environment. She spoke to Environmental as Anything about the ALP's vision for our koala's future.

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Annie Kia on the Damming of Dunoon

Annie Kia works with communities to defend themselves from unsustainable development. She has recently been applying her considerable talents to the problem of the proposal to dam Dunoon in the beautiful rainforest hinterland of Byron Bay NE NSW. She spoke to Environmental as Anything to break the news of an important report by Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS on "The Rous Sustainable Water Program: Towards a secure, reliable and affordable water future"

(MUSIC: "Pure Water" - Songs of the Bentley Blockade)

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Zali Steggall on the EPBC Act & Climate Act

Federal Member for Warringah Zali Steggall hasjust returned from a sitting fortnight in parliament where the Scumo regime rammed its gutting of the Environmental Protectiona and Biodiversity Protection Act under cover of the Covid19 pandemic. She speaks to us about the flaws in the new act and the process and about her proposed amendments which were not even debated. She also explains how the proposed Climate Change Act can ensure there are equitable, transparent and science-based plans to address the impacts of climate change, prevent worsening consequences and take advantage of economic opportunities.

https://climateactnow.com.au/

Music Mick Daley "In the Right Place at the Right Time" (Accoustic Demo)

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Nan Nicholson on the Damming of Dunoon

Legendary environmental protector and rainforest ecologist Nan Nicholson tells us why the proposal to dam Dunoon must be stopped to protect Aboriginal culture, rainforest ecology and the limits to growth

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Michael Mazengarb gives us a digest of the NEWS on Coal, Gas and the Renewable Transition

Michael Mazengarb writes prolifically for Renew Economy on the energy transition. He talks Environmental as Anything through the big headlines in Coal, Gas and Renewable NEWS from the past fortnight.

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NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean outlines how he intends to double our koala population by 2050

Matt Kean has been Minister for Environment and Energy in NSW for just over a year and he has turned his state from a laggard to a leader in the race to become a renewable energy superpower. This week he has seized the forest conservation nettle and promised to turn around the trajectory of our koalas from extinction to doubling in population by 2050. Environmental as Anything asked him to specify how he intends to achieve this heroic goal.

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NSW Forestry Corps is in big trouble in the forests and in the courts

#Familes4Forest is a new movement of parents and children committed to protecting our public native forests from destruction by the NSW govt. They kicked off their campaign in Myrtle State Forest this week and it was a lot of fun. Environmental as Anything was there to report.

Sue Higginson has been a legal advocate for our forests for decades. She speaks to us about some the various legal fronts on which NSW Forestry Corps is in trouble

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Community Speaks out against Santos destroying the Piliga at Narabri IPC

Gomeroi Traditional Custodian Maria Cutmore, Boggabri resident David Watt and LIsmore Environment Centre's Naomi Shine were just 3 of the hundreds of NSW citizens who spoke out at the Narabri public hearings of the Independent planning commission against Santos' proposal to contaminate the Great Artesian Basin, trash the Piliga Forest, worsen climate chaos and undermine Australia's economy.

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