Category: climate change
The Zero-Carbon Act and the amended Emissions Trading Scheme
Whilst CANA is disappointed at the many omissions that remain in the ETS and ZCA – despite...
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Wide interest in Zero Carbon Bill submissions
Jeanette Fitzsimmons’ and Jim Salinger’s recent submissions to the Zero Carbon Bill...
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Protesters greet mining conference field trip, demanding rapid phase-out of coal
PRESS RELEASE Protesters today greeted mining conference delegates on their field trip to the...
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Years Of Pressure On Oil and Gas Exploration Pay Off: Jacinda Ardern Announces An End To Offshore Oil And Gas Block Offers
by Zella Downing. Good on Jacinda Ardern and the current New Zealand government for their courage...
Read MoreHey Fonterra: Coal Must Go but Gas Ain’t Green
by Rosemary Penwarden The tobacco industry got nervous when people began to question the health impacts of cigarettes in the 1950s. In response, their marketers invented the filter-tipped cigarette, to screen out tar and...
Read MoreFonterra Rorts the ETS
from Jeanette Fitzsimons It is perhaps no surprise that our friend Fonterra, as the second biggest coal user in NZ (and a substantial user of gas as well), is among the “dirty dozen” largest users of fraudulent ETS credits...
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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...
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Chch council should drop climate deniers from expert review panel
PRESS RELEASE The Christchurch City Council should drop the two climate deniers it recently...
Read MoreA Trip Down The Rabbit Hole: Rosemary Penwarden Reports From The Fonterra Studholme Expansion Resource Consent Hearing
Rosemary Penwarden spent a day in the fantasy world of “Business as Usual” opposing Fonterra’s ten-fold expansion of its South Canterbury Studholme milk drying plant. Find out what it feels like to take a trip...
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The Grand Round: Dr Briary Crawford Zachernuk Speaks On Climate Change And Health
Climate change is a public health emergency – the biggest health threat of the 21st century,...
Read MoreStand With Sarah For The Climate: Help Fund Her Legal Action Against The NZ Government
Already know you want to help? Go to Givealittle and help fund the legal costs of Sarah Thomson’s judicial review of the Government’s climate change target. The good news: it appears that, in 2015, carbon dioxide...
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