If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

Drew Hutton on fighting coal mining and coal seam gas mining in Australia

 

Drew Hutton

Drew Hutton

On this program, Dr. Caldicott interviews Drew Hutton, an environmental campaigner in his home state of Queensland, Australia. Hutton founded the Greens party in Queensland and was a co-founder of the Australian Greens in 1992. He is an organizer of the Lock the Gate campaign, an alliance of environmentalists and rural landowners opposing the environmental destruction by coal and coal seam gas mining in Queensland. He is also the author, with his wife Libby Connors, of A History of the Australian Environment Movement published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. Watch a 60 Minutes Australia segment on coal seam gas mining (2010, 13 minutes) . This episode also features an excerpt from Dr. Caldicott’s speech in Port Hope, Canada in late 2010. Read two Toronto Star articles about Dr. Caldicott’s activism around Pt. Hope: February 1, 2011: Activist urges Ottawa to examine Port Hope residents for radioactivity and November 16, 2010: Sue government over toxic town, activist tells Port Hope.

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