Environmental as Anything Interviews

A huge show for Environmental as Anything this week: Tamara Smith speaks to Mia Armitage about how the Berijicklian government's Bushfire Recovery Fund scandal has harmed her electorate of Ballina. Janelle Saffin tells Sean O'Shannessy how her electorate of Lismore was also ripped off in the Bushfire fund rorts. Susie Russell from the NCEC reveals how the EPA backed the Cape Byron Power Company's...

Vanessa Ekins - Lismore's freshly appointed Green Mayor reveals her vision for a cleaner more prosperous shire. Dailan Pugh - Analysies what is going on with the federal government and their ongoing failure to fix the EPBC Act Naomi Shine - Shines some light on local news and events from the Lismore Environment Centre --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Sean O'Shannessy Interviews Professor Roberta Ryan on the Great Koala National Park Economic impact analysis and environmental benefit assessment (MUSIC: Twisted Folk " Too Precious to Plunder " - LockOn!) Wendy Bacon speaks to Sean on her Lies, Debates, and Silences: How News Corp produces climate scepticism in Australia report (MUSIC: Mick Daley: " Miranda Devine's Adventures on the Vanilla Fron...

Eve Sinton - January edition of the Fossil Fool Bulletin Ian Lowe - NEW REPORT: AUSTRALIA TAKES MASSIVE FINANCIAL HIT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE - Climate Council Report Hitting Home: The Compounding Costs of Climate Inaction. Cate Faehrmann - NSW Koala Inquiry progress --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Susie Russell & Dailan Pugh - NSW Renewable Energy Plan Fatally Flawed Michael Mazengarb - January RenewEconomy Round up Jim Beatson - Zombie Murder Rats (Please subscribe and share) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Eve Sinton - Fossil Fool Bulletin Fossil Fool Bulletin is a resource for people working to end the fossil fuel era in Australia. It combines a fully referenced weekly news summary with original articles, presented as a PDF newsletter with live links. Fossil Fool Bulletin has been published weekly since November 2017 by journalist Eve Sinton of Focus Publications, who has 35 years of experience in...

Merry Xmas & Happy Summer Solstice everyone -Councilor Vanessa Ekins will be giving us the good news on the decision of Rous County Council to not dam Dunoon - Tim Buckley from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis shares his glad tidings for the transition to renewable prosperity and how China has decided it doesn't want our coal for Xmas -Pablo Brait from Market Forces raises...

Catherine Cusack, Mark Pearson, Justin Field and Cate Faehrmann all stood up and spoke against the koala killer bill in the NSW Legislative Council on the 19/11/2020 and their voices were heard. The bill was defeated, referred to committee and withdrawn by the government. A reprieve for our koalas and a big win for people power in NSW. Listen here to their speeches to parliament and Cate's sumatio...

Rational honest people understand and acknowledge that climate action brings massive economic benefits and failure to act creates much worse damage to our prosperity. In this episode: Zali Steggall talks us through her proposed Climate Bill before the Federal Parliament that will remove the corruption from our energy debate and place us on track for a stable climate and economy. Mark McVeigh tells...

Chris Gulaptus and Geoff Provest voted for the LLS Bill rammed through the NSW lower house on the 14th of October. Their actions along with the rest of the #KoalaKiller faction of the Berejiklian government is causing outrage amongst all who understand what has been done. The bill won't be passed into law until it passes the upper house so there is still a chance that voters can persuade our repre...

Greg Mullins talks us through the The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report Professor Leanne Wiseman words us up on the Right to Repair movement and Productivity Commission Inquiry Bungabee ecologists inspect our local forests for their ecological values before they are destroyed by logging (as reported by Omega Breakspear) Elly Bird LCC EPA and The ALP keeps shifting...

In this episode of our gripping radio noir drama lovelorn femme fatale, Princess Gladys, is looking for options but is rudely interrupted by the shocking return of #KoalaKiller Don Porky Barrell and the unexpected arrival of some even more unwelcome guests - #ICAC --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Tim Buckley, Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia for IEEFA , has 25 years of financial markets experience and has been a keen analyst of the global transition to renewable prosperity. He tells Sean O'Shannessy that last week he was very doubtful that the world's financial markets could act fast enough to get us safely to the goals of the Paris Climate Accord but this week he is "...

Radio noir is back in style as all our favourite villains and anti-heroes from the #KoalaKiller Gangster State display their moral turpitude, corrupt underbellies and bad relationship choices for all the world to see (all in less than 2minutes) (WARNING: May contain traces of nuts) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Michael Mazengarb is well known to regular Environmental as Anything listeners. He delivers his insights into the transition to renewable prosperity with the calm assurance of genuine expertise. Here he is speaking to Sean O'Shannessy on the news from September. https://reneweconomy.com.au/author/michael-mazengarb/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Last Thursday the government passed legislation to close sections of the Casino to Murwilumbah railway line. The Casino to Bentley section will be closed and the Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek section and the railway tracks ripped up for a rail trail. Beth Shelley, Chairperson of the Northern Rivers Railway Action Group says, “The government and Labor have stated there has been extensive community...

On Monday WATER Northern Rivers Alliance launched a campaign for smart water options in the Northern Rivers, instead of the Dunoon Dam. The launch coincides with the start of National Water Week, with its message ‘Let’s re-imagine our water future”. Annie Kia is one of the leading spokesp people for water in NE NSW and she spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything to clarify the posi...

The Morrison regime is as ideologically committed to the neo-liberal agenda as just about any government in the world. When confronted with the global Covid 19 pandemic however they have responded by turning on the economic stimulus taps, briefly. Professor Bill Mitchell, one of the worlds experts in Modern Monetary Theory, speaks to Sean O'Shannessy and offers his assessment of the effectiveness...

Energy Program Director for the Grattan Institute, Tony Woods had a long career in the gas industry but he tells Sean O'Shannessy that he doesn't see the Morrison government's gas plan effectively stimulating the Australian economy Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mark Carney (former head of the Bank of England) agree. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environment...

SANTOS has had its gas attack on the Piliga forest legitimised by the NSW "Independent" Planning Commission but locals and the wider NSW public are overwhelmingly outraged at the corruption of democratic processes and threats to our climate, biodiversity and water security that this decision represents. Roy Butler is the representative of the NSW Seat of Barwon elected on promises to protect his c...

Greg Mullins developed a keen interest in the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events in his period as Commissioner of Fire & Rescue in NSW and is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters. In this interview with Sean O'Shannessy he speaks on the issues raised by the climate infernos sweeping across the West Coast USA and the pol...

The knitting Nanas are a force to be reckoned with as are our School Strikers for Climate. Both have declared they will be ramping up actions for a genuinely sustainable economic recovery from covid and that massive government subsidies and reckless approvals for fossil fuels are not party of that. Sean O'Shannessy attended actions by both Nanas and strikers and filed these reports for Environment...

Simon Holmes à Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council. He helps Sean O'Shannessy and Meg Nielsen see through the smoke kicked up by the spinning wheels of the Morrison regime's energy roadblock plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Southern Cross University whale researcher Dr Wally Franklin speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the heroic whale rescue carried out this week on the SW coast of Tasmania --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Steve Rogers is a dry land rice farmer and Operations Manager for the Natural Rice Company based in Kyogle. He speaks to Sean O'Shannessy & reveals some of the ecological and economic advantages of dry land rice growing and dispels some furphies about the so called Australian "Rice Crisis" Peter Holding is a third-generation farmer in south east NSW, growing crops such as canola and wheat, as well...