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Tag: Big Oil

Fortifying people not profit

29 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 505 is an anonymous agroecology activist from India. We also hear two activists speaking at oil companies’ AGMs.

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Calls to unify against the fossil fuel industry

5 October 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 432 are Yaraan Couzens Bundle, who campaigns against the gas industry’s seismic blasting in the ocean, and Esteban Servat and Louise Wagner, both from Debt for Climate.

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Censored by Facebook for calling climate criminals out

25 October 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

Allow my to have a rant. I don’t appreciate being censored. It hasn’t often happen – the only two times I recall were when I wrote something about the – in my view unpleasantly close – financial relationship between an association of patients

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Donald Trump’s own goal

5 June 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs One comment

First they enriched us with Donald Duck. Now the Americans are bringing to the world their very own… Donald Dumb and his backroom club of fossil fools. It may turn out to be better news that it seemed at first.

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We were being lied to. Victorians still are

11 October 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Today in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about air pollution and cheating with air quality measurements. Outraged by the recent Volkswagen and Exxon scandals, we take a look at local examples of scandalous emissions fraud and

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A brighter future minus coal and gas

7 August 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

At a time when governments protect and promote the coal and gas industries… At a time when the entire world is saying that coal and gas urgently need to be phased out due to the climatic complications caused by the

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From doom to joy

21 March 2014 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

The Sustainable Hour on 19 March 2014 looks into our choice between free and clean energy along with a safer climate on one hand, and expensive, polluting burning of carbon combined with catastrophic climate-doom with economic collapse on the other.

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Help make our region fossil fuel free

17 November 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

» Join us as a signatory of this letter | Go to the petition site where you can sign and add your personal comment: change.org » Please note: When you sign the petition letter, it is important that you also contribute

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“Kids, be glad about our melting polar ice caps”

6 September 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs One comment

“Everyone can appreciate how oil — the dinosaurs’ parting gift to Man — can be used to help build a better future for everyone. Let’s Go!” This is not Shell speaking. But it does look that way when you enter

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Hunger strike against giant coal project

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

The level of commitment in pledges among anti-coal activists has taken a step upwards. Signatures or letter-writing simply won’t do any more. To prevent the construction of the largest coal mining complex in the world, an activist group in Australia

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