Comments on: Are you ready to march against the TPPA? https://coalaction.org.nz/actions/climate-change/are-you-ready-to-march-against-the-tppa Keep the Coal in the Hole! Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kiwiiano https://coalaction.org.nz/actions/climate-change/are-you-ready-to-march-against-the-tppa#comment-110 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:41:41 +0000 http://coalactionnetworkaotearoa.wordpress.com/?p=18181#comment-110 What if some corporation applies for a resource consent to mine for gold in Fiordland then when refused sues for the claimed value of the gold? There need not be any actual gold, the case would be heard in a secret court of their peers…..

]]> By: Pat O'Dea https://coalaction.org.nz/actions/climate-change/are-you-ready-to-march-against-the-tppa#comment-109 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:58:05 +0000 http://coalactionnetworkaotearoa.wordpress.com/?p=18181#comment-109 This is serious people. Already activists have delayed and hassled Fonterra over their Coal Mine at Mangatangi.(By their own published schedule Fonterra is 25 months behind due to the actions of opponents to the mine).

New Zealand has a history of such actions, if protesters acted in the same manner against a foreign coal company the government could be in serious trouble for not cracking down on the right to protest.

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