Category: Southland
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...
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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Changing Hearts And Minds At Mossburn Sunday Market
by Jenny Campbell Changing hearts and minds takes a long time but continuing the conversations...
Read MoreJobs After Coal Roadshow Report
Rosemary Penwarden writes: Coal Action Network Aotearoa’s Jobs After Coal report (PDF, 3Mb) has been a couple of years in the making. Writing it was like one of those relays where you hand the baton to the next person, they go...
Read MoreAscot Park Hotel In Invercargill Ruins Its Sustainability Story By Choosing Lignite
This is a guest post by Coal Action Murihiku member Dave Kennedy from Invercargill. Last year Environment Southland revealed that both Invercargill and Gore had exceeded air pollution standards multiple times due to the on going...
Read MoreSouthland coal looks set to stay in the hole as briquette plant mothballed
16 October 2013– Coal activists are cheering today at the news that Solid Energy and GLT Ltd are mothballing the lignite briquette plant in Mataura, Southland, and said they were confident that a final decision...
Read MoreCoal Action Network cheering at news that Southland coal will be left in the hole
Press release 22 February 2013—The Coal Action Network Aotearoa is celebrating the end of the nonsensical lignite project plans in Southland, after Solid Energy Chairman Mark Ford confirmed on national radio this morning that...
Read MoreSummerfest 2013: The View From Southland
The 2013 Keep the Coal in the Hole Summer Festival was organised by Coal Action Murihiku (CAM), the Southland regional group affiliated with the Coal Action Network Aotearoa. So it seems appropriate to highlight a couple of...
Read MoreKeep Southland’s coal in the hole, Coal Action Network urges Solid
Press release – immediate release 4 February 2013–  The Coal Action Network Aotearoa today welcomed Solid Energy CEO Don Elder’s resignation and called on the company to shut down its lignite proposals in Southland....
Read MoreSummerfest 2013 – And What We’ve Achieved Since Summerfest 2012
The 2013 Keep the Coal in the Hole Summer Festival runs from 18-21 January, which means that it starts in a fortnight’s time! And registrations are due to close on 10 January, which means that you should hurry if you want...
Read MoreSummerfest 2013: The Keep The Coal In The Hole Summer Festival is on again
CANA’s Keep the Coal in the Hole Summer Festival in January 2012 was a great success. It brought people from all over the country to meet with and get to know Southland people opposed to Solid Energy’s massive plans...
Read MoreCoal Action Network Aotearoa Newsletter October 2012
Follow us on Twitter  and on Facebook If the New Zealand cricket team needs a new spinner to replace Daniel Vettori, they need look no further than mining industry lobby group Straterra. Perhaps because Solid Energy is in a...
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