Category: Coal

Fonterra: a useful step forward?

Posted by Cindy Baxter | Jun 12, 2019 | Coal, Fonterra | 1 |

Coal, Air Quality, Health and Deprivation

by Rob Taylor | Jul 21, 2020 | Coal, health, mining, OraTaiao, public health, West Coast | 0 |

This is the first of several posts on the impact of fossil fuels on air quality and health. To...

From indigenous mudfish to the climate: you can’t trust Bathurst Resources

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 2, 2020 | Bathurst Resources, Canterbury Coal Action | 0 |

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. ...

Bathurst Coalgate expansion submission guide

by Rob Taylor | May 10, 2020 | Bathurst Resources, Canterbury Coal Action, Coal, Coal Action Canterbury, coal projects, mining, News, submissions | 0 |

SUBMISSION GUIDE AGAINST BATHURST’S PROPOSED EXPANSION OF COAL MINING NEAR COALGATE Please...

Jeanette Fitzsimons, the coal campaigner

by Cindy Baxter | Mar 12, 2020 | Coal, Jeanette Fitzsimons | 1 |

On Wednesday night 4 March we held our fortnightly Zoom call for an hour and a half, a standing...

New Canterbury coal mine will have a fight on its hands

by Cindy Baxter | Sep 30, 2019 | Coal, press releases | 0 |

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...

Does Wellington really want to be the coalest little capital?

by tjonescan | Aug 26, 2019 | actions, Bathurst Resources, Coal, Extinction Rebellion, Fonterra, News, news stories, NZ Petroleum and Minerals, protest, Straterra, Wellington | 0 |

By Melanie Vautier and Tim Jones. First published on The Spinoff. Extinction Rebellion takes a...

The Minerals Blockade: A View From the Frontline

by tjonescan | Jul 19, 2019 | actions, Aotearoa, blockade, Coal, conferences, Dunedin, Extinction Rebellion, News | 0 |

By Melanie Vautier I recently found myself in Dunedin for the first time in a decade. It was...

Fonterra: a useful step forward?

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 12, 2019 | Coal, Fonterra | 1 |

By Jeanette Fitzsimons In April, the media reported that Fonterra has carried out a trial of...

Responding to Bernie

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 5, 2019 | Coal | 3 |

Coal Action Network Aotearoa was recently approached by the editor of the insider mining magazine “Inside Resources,” Bernie Napp, who had read our submission to MBIE/EECA on process heat and wanted to create a...