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

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