Seaweed farmers v. Big Oil & soil with Freya Mulvey

This one’s for you if you’re interested in how a class action case works, if you wanna hear about seaweed farmers taking on big oil companies or if you’re also a soil person 🌱🪱

Freya Mulvey is a senior lawyer and environmental enthusiast who is passionate about implementing better soil and landscape regulation into policy and legal frameworks. She is a 2023 Churchill Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the Australian Lawyers Alliance Civil Justice Award for her work on the Montara Oil Spill. She is also a published author of the book Ground Breaking: Soil Security and Climate Change. We're also making a podcast together!

You can find Freya on LinkedIn, subscribe to SOIL on Spotify here, find us on socials @soilpodcast or read more at thesoilpodcast.com.Subscribe for updates or support the podcast at quietnightin.substack.com. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Indonesian seaweed farmers win class action over one of Australia's largest oil spills

Interview with Greg Phelps

Phil Mulvey, Environmental Earth Sciences International

Ground Breaking: Soil Security & Climate Change (the book Freya co-authored with Phil Mulvey)

SOIL - Pozible campaign

Soil on Spotify

Seaweed People is completely independent. You can support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Larrakia Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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