Category: Jeanette Fitzsimons
Jeanette Fitzsimons, the coal campaigner
On Wednesday night 4 March we held our fortnightly Zoom call for an hour and a half, a standing...
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A major loophole threatens the Zero Carbon bill
Forty-two organisations have written to Environment Minister David Parker about the loophole,...
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Model submission on the Minerals and Petroleum Resource Strategy
I hope these comments will help you make your own submissions, the deadline for which is September...
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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...
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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”...
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