City Limits - Olympic Dam and Climate Change

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 - 9:00am to 10:00am

The Olympic Dam mine is 400 kilometres from Adelaide in South Australia. It's owned by BHP and mines copper, gold, silver, uranium. It currently has a licence to produce 200 tonnes of copper per annum, but BHP has put in an applications to increase that to 350,000 tonnes of copper. Listen in for all the details from Dave Sweeny from the Australian Conservation Foundation. Our second guest is Ruby Marshall from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, who updates us on the school strike, Adani and the upcoming election.

Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am
Urban environment issues, analysing government services, both federal and state and local campaigns.

Presenter

Kevin Healy, Zeb Peake & Karina Aedo-Aguilera

Topic

Episodes

Housing with Shane McGrath

21 Oct 2026
Housing with Shane McGrath

Energy and AUKUS with Dave Sweeney

14 Oct 2026
Energy and AUKUS with Dave Sweeney

Solutions to Water Shortages with Helen van den Berg

30 Sep 2026
Solutions to Water Shortages

Victorian Government Approves Poisoning Victorians with Cath Rouse

23 Sep 2026
Victorian government approves toxic pollution