![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Gunns, its impacts are not solely local – nor are the financial flows and political systems supporting the company. Where The Rise And Fall Of Gunns Ltd described a forest imperilled – and saved – by local actors, Adani And The War Over Coal is about local ecosystems threatened by a transnational corporation. ![]() His next book, published in 2018, focuses on a very different environmental struggle. Only spirited local opposition – which took to the streets and went to the courts – eventually saved those forests. Supporting the project, state politicians had dismissed concerns from local scientific bodies. The company was engulfed in snowballing controversy after announcing plans for a pulp mill that threatened native forests. In 2015, Australian professor of politics Quentin Beresford published his book on Gunns Ltd- the biggest logging firm in Tasmania. An interview with Quentin Beresford, author of Adani And The War Over Coal. Opposition to Adani’s Coal Mining project in Queensland is one of the more successful environmental movements against a transnational corporation. ![]()
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