Category: Coal
The Kopako1 Protest: A View from the Inside
By Melanie Vautier On Sunday the CANA organising group, along with many other wonderful people, had a great day protesting a coal mine near Huntly. Firstly: What is this coal mine? It is a recently reopened mine, with the...
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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 District...
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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...
Read MoreNew Bathurst coal mine as much use as tits on a bull
by Rosemary Penwarden Bathurst Resources’ (BRL) shareholders were treated to a tale from fantasy land last week. The fantasy is that Bathurst’s newly acquired coal exploration permit near Waimate will service Fonterra’s...
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Grandmothers and farmers block Fonterra plant
23 January 2017 Three grandmothers, a student and a farmer have this morning chained themselves to...
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Growth in the dairy industry is resurrecting coal – and killing the climate. Join us in the heart of dairy country to take action.
Growth in the dairy industry is resurrecting coal – and killing the climate. 95% of Fonterra’s...
Read MoreCome to the CANA Summerfest 2017, 21-23 January!
Growth in the dairy industry is resurrecting coal – and killing the climate. Join us 21-23 January for a summer camp: network with other activists, share information and stories, learn more about NVDA and plan an action....
Read MoreA hospital that makes people sick?
by Jeanette Fitzsimons The long-running question of whether the new Christchurch hospital will run on coal or wood waste is still not resolved, but seems to be heading back to coal. See my blog A tale of two hospitals from March...
Read MoreCoal Prices – do they prove us wrong?
by Jeanette Fitzsimons Industry is exulting over a stellar rise in the coal price this year. But we won’t be investing our savings. The 5 year steady drop in the price of coking coal since 2011 has slowed work at Stockton,...
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