Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1989 ki te tau 1993 me te tau 1998 ki te tau 2002, ko Peter Garrett, te kaiwaiata matua o te rōpū, te Perehitini o te Australian Conservation Foundation, i te tau 1993 ki te tau 1998 i roto ia i te Poari International o Greenpeace. I te tau 1990 i whakatangihia e Midnight Oil he huinga kai i mua o te tari matua o Exxon i New York me te panui panui, "Midnight Oil Makes You Dance, Exxon Oil Makes Us Sick", e whakahe ana ki te turuturu hinu o Exxon Valdez
te tau o mua.