Category: mining

Takitumu Mine Occupation, May 2022

by Rob Taylor | Jun 5, 2022 | actions, Bathurst Resources, blockade, Coal, dirty dairying, Extinction Rebellion, Fonterra, mining, News, news stories, protest, Southland | 0 |

IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST: CLIMATE ACTION AT THE COAL FACE Guest post by Silvia Purdie On Monday 2...

CLIMATE ACTION FOR AOTEAROA – CANA SUBMISSION TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION, MARCH 2021

by Rob Taylor | Apr 5, 2021 | Aotearoa, carbon emissions, Coal, consultation, consumerism, dirty dairying, Electricity, Heads in the Sand, Jobs After Coal, methane, mining, News, Paris Agreement, politics, Renewables, submissions | 0 |

All That Summer All that summer we sailed the drowned isthmus, Miramar Island bulking east. Diving...

It’s coal’s turn on the ash heap of history

by Rob Taylor | Feb 18, 2021 | Aotearoa, Bathurst Resources, Coal, Fonterra, Just Transitions, op ed | 0 |

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…”

Bathurst to close Canterbury Coal Mine: all eyes now on Fonterra

by Cindy Baxter | Feb 10, 2021 | Bathurst Resources, News, press releases | 1 |

The news today that Bathurst Resources is to close its Canterbury Coal mine at Coalgate is a...

A guide to making submissions against the Coalgate mine, via the Selwyn District Plan

by Rob Taylor | Dec 7, 2020 | Bathurst Resources, Canterbury Coal Action, Christchurch, Coal Action Canterbury, coal projects, dirty dairying, Fonterra, mining | 0 |

Earlier this year, CANA opposed the granting of resource consents, by Environment Canterbury and...

“Fuelling Dissension”

by Rob Taylor | Nov 26, 2020 | actions, Aotearoa, Bathurst Resources, Coal, coal industry, dirty dairying, economics, fossil fuels, mining, Solid Energy, West Coast | 0 |

XMAS GIFTS! When you buy Jane Young’s excellent “Fuelling Dissension: Coal and coal...

Fonterra should be ashamed of causing coal mine expansion: CANA supports activists

by Cindy Baxter | Sep 28, 2020 | Bathurst Resources, climate change, Fonterra, News | 0 |

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...

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. ...