Category: Jeanette Fitzsimons
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...
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Would that Fonterra Would Use Wood!
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Well, actually CANA doesn’t care whether Fonterra uses wood or...
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A Tale Of Two Hospitals
Christchurch is rebuilding two hospitals – the central one and one at Burwood. One is installing...
Read MoreAuckland Coal Action Exposes Fonterra’s Dirty Secret: Coal
Fonterra has a dirty secret it prefers to keep from the world: many of its dairy plants are powered by the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. Fonterra has made noises about switching to renewable forms of fuel, such as...
Read MoreThe 2015 Revised Edition of Jobs After Coal: More Timely Than Ever
The 2015 revised edition of CANA’s report Jobs After Coal: A Just Transition for New Zealand Communities was released on the 2nd of May, in conjunction with a speech CANA organising group member Jeanette Fitzsimons gave at the...
Read MoreFair Shares – or Excuses, Excuses?
Jeanette Fitzsimons wrote this post as she worked on her submission to the Government’s just-completed climate change target consultation process. Like hundreds of New Zealanders I went to one of the Government’s...
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May Day at Blackball: we call for a new extractive industry on the coast
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… There was a theme for this year’s May Day seminar at Blackball,...
Read MoreFonterra Sneaks Round The Corner – Part 2
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Our recent post about Fonterra’s new coal mine seems to have provoked a flurry of denials from Fonterra and Solid Energy. Why so sensitive? Fonterra says their Mangatangi mine is not “on hold”...
Read MoreJobs After Coal: Full Report, Summary Report, and Presentation Now Available
Jobs After Coal is Coal Action Network Aotearoa’s report, released in May 2014, that shows how coal mining communities can move beyond dependence on coal jobs – and how we can provide a just transition for workers in...
Read MoreJobs After Coal South Island Tour July 2014
UPDATE: Change of venue for Dunedin event on 29 July – now in Archway Lecture Theatre 2! After the excellent reception given to CANA’s report Jobs After Coal at the Wellington launch in May, and a Christchurch event...
Read MoreSolid Energy layoffs more evidence coal won’t provide secure jobs
Press release 6 June Further layoffs expected today at Solid Energy’s Stockton mine are a warning that coal cannot be relied on for community prosperity and jobs says Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA). CANA’s new report, Jobs...
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