Category: politics
Years Of Pressure On Oil and Gas Exploration Pay Off: Jacinda Ardern Announces An End To Offshore Oil And Gas Block Offers
by tjonescan | Apr 18, 2018 | carbon emissions, climate change, Just Transitions, natural gas, News, oil drilling, politics, protest | 0 |
by Zella Downing. Good on Jacinda Ardern and the current New Zealand government for their courage...
Read MorePress release: Te Kuha is first conservation test of new Government – Coal Action Network Aotearoa
by tjonescan | Nov 22, 2017 | news stories, politics, press releases, Te Kuha, West Coast, West Coast | 0 |
The first test of whether there has been a real change in conservation policy will be the government’s decision on whether to allow a coal mining company to remove the mountaintop in a West Coast Conservation park, Coal Action...
Read MoreUsing the Election to Fight Climate Change
by tjonescan | Sep 19, 2017 | Green Party, Labour Party, National Party, New Zealand First, News, politics | 0 |
Cows, rivers, tractors, pipelines – all prominent in this election campaign. But how about...
Read MoreThe Government Is Trying To Classify Protests At Sea As Terrorism – Submit By Friday
by tjonescan | Aug 16, 2016 | fossil fuels, politics, submissions | 2 |
There have been many famous seaborne protests in New Zealand’s history. Some of them – like the Moruroa ship visits – were even organised by the Government of the day. But the current National Government is...
Read MorePolitical Consensus Grows Around The End Of Thermal Coal
by tjonescan | Aug 31, 2015 | carbon emissions, coking coal, Fonterra, fossil fuels, Green Party, Labour Party, National Party, New Zealand First, politics, Solid Energy, steel | 0 |
For anyone still thinking that mining coal and burning it to provide heat or create electricity (that is, mining thermal coal) is a good way to make a buck, August 2015 was full of bad news. First, Wellington’s Dominion Post...
Read MoreWe put our Heads in the Sand last Sunday. This Monday, it’s time to tell National MPs to Cut the Gap on climate change.
by tjonescan | Dec 13, 2014 | actions, climate negotiations, Generation Zero, National Party, uncategorized | 0 |
We took action last Sunday… Heads in the Sand last Sunday, in which a thousand or so New Zealanders at 12 beaches around the country put their heads in the sand to symbolise the Government’s failure to act on climate...
Read MoreNational’s Mining Agenda Has Failed
by tjonescan | Sep 10, 2014 | mining, National Party, news stories, politics | 2 |
So it’s come to this: The National-led Government’s ambition to have the mining, and separate oil and gas sector, underpin economic recovery has borne little long term gains in its past two terms. – from mining...
Read MoreWhat agreement did the Government make with Indian coal interests?
by Cana Admin | Mar 6, 2014 | carbon emissions, coal industry, coal projects, fossil fuels, Jeanette Fitzsimons, mining, Pike River, press releases, Simon Bridges, Solid Energy, steel, Stockton | 0 |
Statements made in Indian media by Indian Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma after he met with Energy Minister Simon Bridges on 30 January indicate a clear expectation of some kind of deal between the two Governments on coal, said...
Read MoreChallenge The Government’s Mining Agenda: Wellington, This Thursday
by tjonescan | Aug 4, 2013 | protest, Simon Bridges, Straterra, Wellington | 0 |
On Thursday 8 August, Simon Bridges, Minister of Energy and Resources is going to the mining club, Straterra, to “discuss how he sees the energy and resources portfolio evolving and his views on challenges facing the...
Read MoreFellowship of the Drill? What was our PM thinking?
by Cana Admin | Jul 29, 2013 | climate negotiations, coal industry, John Key, mining, news stories, oil drilling, politics | 0 |
Our charming Prime Minister – and Minister of Tourism – has excelled himself with his latest video promoting drilling, fracking and the general digging up of our beautiful country and its offshore marine environment....
Read MoreSolid Energy and the National Government: So Happy Together
by tjonescan | Feb 25, 2013 | Bill English, briquetting plant, coal projects, John Key, Solid Energy | 1 |
“The Government was worried about Solid Energy’s ambitious investment plans and rosy view of coal prices as far back as 2009 but was unable to order the company to steer a safer course, Prime Minister John Key...
Read MoreMining plan ‘pure lunacy’, lobby group says
by tjoneslists | Sep 30, 2012 | Denniston, economics, Just Transitions, news stories, politics | 0 |
Coal Action Network Spokesperson Kristin Gillies on TVNZ’s Breakfast explaining why we think opening another coal mine is not the answer to the West Coast’s economic crisis. view here……. All Solid Energy...
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