Category: Auckland Coal Action
Protest Fonterra, New Zealand’s Worst Polluter, this Friday, 28th May 2021
AUCKLAND PROTEST: Victoria Park, cnr Halsey & Fanshawe St, opposite Fonterra HQ at 109...
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Auckland Coal Action: Activists carry out Waikato coal mine inspection, leave climate message
A group of eight activists from Auckland Coal Action, many of them grandparents, have carried out...
Read MoreThis Saturday, It’s Time To March For The Climate
The People’s Climate March is this weekend. Most events are on Saturday 28 November, though there are a few on the 29th. You can check the details of local events (note that there are 4 pages of events – you can move...
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Fonterra finally admits its coal mine is “on hold”
By Jeanette Fitzsimons Fonterra has just confirmed, in a letter to local residents, that its...
Read MoreAuckland Coal Action Exposes Fonterra’s Dirty Secret: Coal
Fonterra has a dirty secret it prefers to keep from the world: many of its dairy plants are powered by the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. Fonterra has made noises about switching to renewable forms of fuel, such as...
Read MoreFonterra Sneaks Round The Corner – Part 2
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Our recent post about Fonterra’s new coal mine seems to have provoked a flurry of denials from Fonterra and Solid Energy. Why so sensitive? Fonterra says their Mangatangi mine is not “on hold”...
Read MoreFonterra Sneaks Round The Corner
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Fonterra’s subsidiary Glencoal has put its plans for an open cast mine on SH2 at Mangatangi on hold indefinitely. The local community is celebrating. They worked very hard with submissions on...
Read MoreThe Unequal Battle for the Environment: Update On Mangatawhiri Hearings, 3 September
Jeanette Fitzsimons follows up her earlier report, Second Elephant Needed at Mangatawhiri: Today there was no elephant, despite the need for two. It just shows how hard it is for unpaid voluntary activists to be there all the...
Read MoreSecond Elephant Needed at Mangatawhiri
Today began the second week of hearings on Glencoal’s (a wholly owned coal mining subsidiary of Fonterra’s who sell only to their parent company) application for consents to construct an open cast coal mine on 30 ha of farmland...
Read MoreNewsletter July 2013
Kia Ora all The last month or so has seen a number of revelations on several of our coal fronts. From Solid Energy walking away from the briquetting plant in Southland to ongoing developments for Bathurst Resources’ efforts to...
Read MoreDo the right thing, Fonterra: Quit Coal
Coal Action Network Aotearoa applauds Fonterra for no longer accepting milk from farms that have converted marginal land into dairy pasture using oil and gas drilling waste (known as “land farming”). Fonterra say the perception...
Read MoreSubmit Now On Fonterra’s Proposed New Mine Near Auckland
Fonterra wants to build a new coal mine at Mangatawhiri, near Auckland, and Auckland Coal Action is working with local residents to oppose it. Submissions on the proposed mine are now open and close on Thursday 28 March. Please...
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