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Georgina Woods
@georgefwoods
Environmentalism and poetry. Living on Awabakal land, Muloobinba. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Dec 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In local studies section of Newcastle Library this morning to consult this pamphlet, produced in 1980 by Newcastle trade unionists and environmentalists, arguing together for sustainable jobs and local control, pushing back on Wran Govt’s sweeping coal-driven industrial agenda This is the page of fascinating epigraphs. Murray Wilcox, Jack Kidd, Jack Mundey, Keith Windschuttle (!) and Tom Uren
Aug 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This morning at NSW energy supply & resources inquiry, we're hearing from MUA, CFMEU Mining & Energy and the AMWU. MUA starts strongly saying they represent workers at coal export terminals and also support efforts to prevent global warming over 1.5 degrees #climate #nswpol Peter Colley for Mining and Energy is also making a lot of sense about involving workers and the community in consensus-based planning that leaves no one behind
Mar 12, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
While we wait for @NSWDPIE DPIE to conclude its assessment of Santos' Narrabri gasfield, let's revisit some of the complicated but quite serious problems with the assessment of its predicted impacts Water is the big one. The gasfield will remove tens of billions of litres of groundwater to get gas flowing. This water is part of the Gunnedah Oxley Basin & in the Pilliga, it's buried below the Pilliga Sandstone, an outcropping of the sthn recharge of the Great Artesian Basin
Oct 8, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Stepping in to say that political commentators sagely advising #ExtinctionRebellion to protest less annoyingly really need to tell us *what sort of protest would make you start taking climate change seriously* Because, believe me, people have tried every possible avenue in the last two decades. Randomly stopping traffic has come at the bottom of a long list of more considerate attempts to *get you to take climate change seriously*
Jan 1, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I was in my last year of high school in '97 and the Howard Government was campaigning and lobbying world leaders against an emerging climate change deal, as revealed by the 96/97 cabinet papers naa.gov.au/collection/exp… Cabinet submissions and decisions on #climate change in the first 18 months of the Howard Govt are notable for not mentioning the impacts or consequences of climate change at all....