Category: Coal
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...
Read MoreIt’s coal’s turn on the ash heap of history
CANA member Tim Jones has an excellent op-ed in Newsroom: “Governments around the world are announcing phase-out dates for coal. It’s time New Zealand stopped dragging the chain…”
Read MoreBathurst to close Canterbury Coal Mine: all eyes now on Fonterra
The news today that Bathurst Resources is to close its Canterbury Coal mine at Coalgate is a...
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A guide to making submissions against the Coalgate mine, via the Selwyn District Plan
Earlier this year, CANA opposed the granting of resource consents, by Environment Canterbury and...
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“Fuelling Dissension”
XMAS GIFTS! When you buy Jane Young’s excellent “Fuelling Dissension: Coal and coal...
Read MoreFonterra should be ashamed of causing coal mine expansion: CANA supports activists
Fonterra should be ashamed of causing a coal mine expansion Bathurst Resource’s planned extension of its Canterbury coal mine, shut down by protesters this morning, is proof that dairy companies like Fonterra are not moving out...
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Coal, Air Quality, Health and Deprivation
This is the first of several posts on the impact of fossil fuels on air quality and health. To...
Read MoreFrom indigenous mudfish to the climate: you can’t trust Bathurst Resources
Coal company Bathurst Resources is at it again, this time applying to expand its coal mine at Coalgate, in mid-Canterbury, adding another 18ha to its current mine, which supplies the Fonterra and Synlait dairy factories. ...
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Bathurst Coalgate expansion submission guide
SUBMISSION GUIDE AGAINST BATHURST’S PROPOSED EXPANSION OF COAL MINING NEAR COALGATE Please...
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Jeanette Fitzsimons, the coal campaigner
On Wednesday night 4 March we held our fortnightly Zoom call for an hour and a half, a standing...
Read MoreNew Canterbury coal mine will have a fight on its hands
PRESS RELEASE If a coal miner – today given a green light to purchase sensitive Canterbury land for its coal – thinks it will be able to build a new coal mine it is likely to face serious opposition, Coal Action...
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Does Wellington really want to be the coalest little capital?
By Melanie Vautier and Tim Jones. First published on The Spinoff. Extinction Rebellion takes a...
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