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UNLOCKED! Orphaned Wells (feat. Megan Milliken Biven)

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released only to our Patreon subscribers, but we're making it free for everyone today! In this episode, infrastructure enthusiast Sparky Abraham speaks to Megan Milliken Biven about abandoned oil wells. "The Wreckage of the Last Energy Epoch": https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-wreckage-of-the-last-energy-epoch-abandoned-wells-and-workers https://www.truetransition.org/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome. Current Affairs Bird Feed to another super special bonus episode for Current Affairs podcast.

0:05.0

This is Finance Editor Sparky Abraham. I am, you know, I'm always extra excited, but I'm extra, extra excited about this one.

0:10.7

I feel like we're back into the infrastructure series, back into the disastrous infrastructure series.

0:17.2

Anyway, I'm here with Megan Milken Biven. Hi, Megan.

0:21.1

Welcome.

0:21.7

Thank you for having me, Sparky.

0:23.1

Oh, you're welcome.

0:24.2

I like the mouthing what's up before saying very officially.

0:29.3

Thank you.

0:31.6

You agree to Zoom.

0:33.6

I did.

0:34.2

So I even suggested it.

0:36.3

So Megan is a former federal regulator, and you are also the founder of true transition. And I expect that what true transition is is going to be related to what we're going to talk about today. But do you want to just tell people what true transition is? Well, we are in the nascent phases of planning what this organization will be, but I envision it

0:55.2

being the space where we can elevate the voices of frontline oil and gas workers, the people

1:00.5

who are being displaced currently, or the people who are being exploited in the fields,

1:04.4

and to have their voice added to the conversation for our energy transition, but also to

1:09.1

engage those people directly with the communities that are

1:11.8

affected. Because oftentimes, those are the very same people living in those communities affected

1:16.2

by this infrastructure. So it's going to be a bunch of things, but that is, I think, the heart

1:21.2

of what I envision this organization to be. Okay, perfect. When you say affected by this

1:26.0

infrastructure, I think that's just going to get us

1:27.9

right into what we're talking about, which is you very recently had an article published in

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