Description
Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a coal country heartland. Communities in Muswellbrook and Singleton in the NSW Upper Hunter are living at the coalface — quite literally — of the vexed debate over Australia's slow transition to a post-Carbon future. Australia's oldest coal-fired Liddell power station {"Lady Liddell") was shut down by AGL last year, AGL's Bayswater Power Station will close within a decade, coal mines are being closed, others expanded, and now the Coalition is proposing a nuclear power station for the Liddell site, but AGL has other plans.
This event was organised by Arts Upper Hunter as part of the LIDDELLWorks exhibition and artists' residency, and held at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre.
Speakers:
Professor Glenn Albrecht
Environmental philosopher
Creator of the concept "Solastalgia"
Author, Earth Emotions: New Words for A New World.
Associate Professor Hedda Askland
Futures anthropologist
Leader, MyMuswellbrook research project
Rob Cooper
Corporate and community affairs manager (Liddell and Bayswater power stations)
AGL
Fiona Lee
Artist and climate activist
One of the 16 artists shown in the LIDDELLworks exhibition
Further information:
Liddell: Layers of Language in the Landscape (essay by Glenn Albrecht as part of the Liddellworks project)
Artworks story on Fiona Lee
Liddell and Bayswater Power Stations, including Liddell demolition pans
Information from AGL about 500MW battery development at Liddell site
Hunter Energy Hub HyResource background
Information on solar recycling proposal at Liddell site
Hunter Renewal Community Blueprint
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