Category: climate change
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...
Read MoreFonterra Uses More Coal Than Huntly Coal-Fired Power Station
Fonterra is now the second largest user of coal in New Zealand, using more coal than the Huntly coal-fired power station, according to our new research (see table below). This highlights the company’s contribution to climate...
Read MoreSpeaking Tour: In The Eye Of The Storm: Disaster Politics And Climate Change In The Philippines
This speaking tour of Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland next week with Dr Efleda Bautista of People Surge is well worth your time and attention. Event details are: Christchurch: 12 October, 7.30pm, Addington Haven, 19 Church...
Read MoreTell Banks To Do The Paris Pledge To Quit Coal
Don’t need any convincing to sign on? Go straight to http://dotheparispledge.org/ BankTrack, the international NGO tracking the investments of private sector banks and their effect on people and the planet, has recently...
Read MoreFair Shares – or Excuses, Excuses?
Jeanette Fitzsimons wrote this post as she worked on her submission to the Government’s just-completed climate change target consultation process. Like hundreds of New Zealanders I went to one of the Government’s...
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