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Slick

Slick

Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil

by Royce Kurmelovs
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/07/2024

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A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation.

Slick- Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive look at the origins of the Australian petroleum industry, investigating what these companies knew about climate change and how they learned to wield influence and insert themselves into all facets of public life. Royce Kurmelovs reveals how the US petroleum industry was warned about its environmental impacts back in the 1950s and yet went on to build the Australian oil industry, which in turn tried to drill the Great Barrier Reef, sought to strongarm governments, and joined a global effort to bury the science of climate change and delay action despite knowing the harms it would cause.

Slick also tells the stories of fire and flood survivors, as well as of the activists engaged in a high-stakes fight for the future of Australia and of the efforts being made to save ourselves from catastrophe.

This superb, in-depth work of journalism provides an on-the-ground examination of how the fossil fuel industry captured Australia, and outlines what's at stake for the survival of the planet and our democracy.

ISBN:
9780702268601
9780702268601
Category:
Petroleum technology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-07-2024
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
1x1x1mm
Weight:
0kg
Royce Kurmelovs

Royce Kurmelovs is an independent journalist and writer whose work has been published by the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Vice, The Guardian, Crikey, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and various other publications.

Royce grew up in Salisbury, South Australia, and now lives in Adelaide's west. Royce's second book, Rogue Nation, will be published in December 2017. He is also working on a third book, for publication in 2018.

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