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We are off looking at areas threatened by logging in north east VIC. Locals wanted to show us the plantation harvesting too. No drainage lines protected, imagine the erosion into the Ovens River when it rains. What a horror show.

@pcutler We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

@GreenCanaryPod What on earth is a country with a population of fewer than 3M people (Qatar) going to do with 8 enormous arenas.... Building huge things that become redundant after a few weeks is eco-vandalism on a grand scale. It's like a single-use coffee cup the size of a small suburb.

Our weekly Green Canary newsletter will be out Thursday morning instead of Wednesday afternoon this week, with apologies!

If you’re concerned about #climatechange then you really need to subscribe to ⁦@GreenCanaryPod⁩ for your climate news! In this episode I was interviewed about our new book “Organising Responses to Climate Change” - check it out at 9:45 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…

In case you're the only green-minded person in Australia who hasn't seen this yet. At least Chevron very generously donated $30

100,000 meg release from Wyangala Dam. Evacuation warnings downstream at Cowra. @nampix for @smh

@Billy03230830 @antsharwood Great question. Have been wondering the same, Billy. Let’s put this to @TimBarlow3 who’s an ecologist in the area but is perhaps not up with the latest. Can’t hurt to ask tho

Ant, or Elphy , or other knowledgeable peeps, what is happening to the brumbies of the Barmah Forest? I imagine drowning slowly is not as humane as instant death via a bullet would have been? @GreenCanaryPod @antsharwood

None outa five ain’t bad

Seen a headline here, a brief snippet there about green stuff in the budget? We've broken down all the important green $$$ allocations in our weekly newsletter, out later this arvo. Still time to sign up at hello@thegreencanary.co!

Biggest green news out of the budget was probably the $204 million for the Reef, which was announced a few days ago ICYMI minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/medi…

@al_superfooty @antsharwood Bloody hell. Have read about half. More later. Jeebers

@GreenCanaryPod @antsharwood this seems not great rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Govt has just committed to signing the global methane pledge. Will it ruin the Aussie BBQ? If you caught the beef farmer in our pod last week, you'd know that's a load of bull! $5m will go towards research & development for low-emissions feed supplements abc.net.au/news/2022-10-2…

"No more Aussie barbies," the Nats & others shrieked as the Albo govt looked to sign the Global Methane Pledge. Well, we interviewed a beef farmer via @farmingforever to set the record straight on this week's pod. Learned lots and you will too. Tune in! open.spotify.com/episode/50QFpC…

Have you ever seen an Eastern barred bandicoot? We cared for this little girl before the registered carer picker her up, and we are all smitten.

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@GreenCanaryPod Raising the wall of Warragamba Dam would be the property developers' preference because they won't have to pay for it. But can they convince potential buyers, and the insurance industry, that raising the wall will guarantee a flood-free future for homes built on flood plains?

Seems certain that the wall of Warragamba Dam (Sydney's largest water storage) will be raised 14 m. NSW Premier Dom Perrottet calls it a "critical state significant infrastructure project" & says he'll put "people before plants". Blue Mts ecologists are STRONGLY opposed to this

If you're nice, we'll include this amazing animated graph of 2022 Sydney rainfall in our weekly newsletter, which comes out soon. You can still subscribe via hello@thegreencanary.co. Oops, looks like we posted it here too! Thx to @weatherzone & Bureau of Meteorology data

Great numbers on the pod today, so thanks for tuning in. We've got the best news in ages for Aussie EV wannabe-buyers (that's us!) and plenty more Also, you won't believe the Pic of the Week in this week's newsletter, so sign up at hello@thegreencanary.co open.spotify.com/episode/2bIIiA…

2022 has been a truly exceptional year of rainfall in #Sydney. It only took 279 days to break the city’s annual rainfall record of 2194mm from 1950, with annual data available back to 1859.

@zeroxcliche @Cam_Walker True dat, all of dat

@Cam_Walker @GreenCanaryPod Ecological & carbon footprint on this thing is going to be horrendous, vulnerable to extreme drought just as ultra cheap batteries r on the horizon

This is absolutely unacceptable. There is an alternative to this massive destruction. The NSW gov needs to commit to the Talbingo reservoir substation option. theguardian.com/environment/20…