Category: Coal
New 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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The Minerals Blockade: A View From the Frontline
By Melanie Vautier I recently found myself in Dunedin for the first time in a decade. It was...
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Fonterra: a useful step forward?
By Jeanette Fitzsimons In April, the media reported that Fonterra has carried out a trial of...
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Responding to Bernie
Coal Action Network Aotearoa was recently approached by the editor of the insider mining magazine ...
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Coal in Aotearoa – Discussion Day, Sunday 26 May
A day of discussion, information…. and plotting the end of coal in Aotearoa. Sunday...
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The Kopako1 Protest: A View from the Inside
By Melanie Vautier On Sunday the CANA organising group, along with many other wonderful people,...
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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...
Read MoreTe Kuha protection a “victory for the people, climate change, and great spotted kiwi”
PRESS RELEASE 16 June 2018 The decision to protect a section of the West Coast’s Mt Rochfort Conservation area from becoming a coal mine – announced today by the Government – will come as an enormous relief to a lot...
Read MoreSign The Petition: Stop Te Kuha Coalmine
Sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-te-kuha-coal-mine Read our press release: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1712/S00201/not-too-late-for-govt-to-say-no-to-mining-doc-land.htm The Buller...
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Fonterra pledges 13 more years of new coal boilers
14 November 2017 Coal Action Network (CANA) has awarded Fonterra half a tick for at least...
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The emperor’s new economics: how neoliberalism lets coal miners get away with making wild, unsupported claims about economic benefits
by Jane Young ‘Neoliberalism’ is one of those terms rarely used in a complimentary sense. In fact...
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