Category: actions
Shane Jones throws a lump of coal to the mining lobbyists
PRESS RELEASE Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA), the national organisation campaigning for an end to coal mining and coal use, says Resources Minister Shane Jones needs to understand the world has moved on from the industrial...
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CANA activist’s protest trial gets worldwide attention
Photo credit: BMahalski / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Long-term CANA member Rosemary Penwarden gained...
Read MoreCoalition of 30 environmental groups launches 10-point climate action plan
PRESS RELEASE A coalition of over 30 organisations from across Aotearoa has come together to launch a 10 point plan called “Climate Shift”, which calls for urgent climate action from parties across the political spectrum in the...
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Takitumu Mine Occupation, May 2022
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST: CLIMATE ACTION AT THE COAL FACE Guest post by Silvia Purdie On Monday 2...
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Our biggest polluters are still calling the shots on coal
By Rosemary Penwarden This week the government gave the thumbs up for Fonterra to keep burning...
Read MoreCANA Summerfest Postponed
Unfortunately, due to a range of factors including COVID, personal commitments and everything else that’s happening in Southland, we’ve decided not to hold CANA’s Summerfest 2022 in January near Gore as...
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Thoughts on the 26th UN Climate Summit, COP26
“Humankind cannot bear much reality” -T.S. Eliot The UN-sponsored Conference of Parties (COP) was...
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Fossil Free Schools Week of Action – 29 October to 4 November
Events will take place in: – Tāmaki / Auckland (online) – 3 November, 6.30pm:...
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Petition: No New Fossil Fuel Permits or Expansions in Aotearoa
Campaign created by Climate Justice Taranaki, Coal Action Network Aotearoa, Taranaki Energy Watch...
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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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Govt coal boiler ban welcome, but leaves door open for gas, favours Fonterra
The Government’s latest efforts to tackle emissions from coal are not the kind of bold action required to get New Zealand onto a net zero emissions pathway, and disappointingly leaves the door open for gas.
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CLIMATE ACTION FOR AOTEAROA – CANA SUBMISSION TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION, MARCH 2021
All That Summer All that summer we sailed the drowned isthmus, Miramar Island bulking east. Diving...
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