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Bathurst Resources: Poised Above The Precipice
Our first Coal Action Network Aotearoa strategy day of 2025 focused on Bathurst Resources, the...
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Shane Jones, Chris Bishop, and Simeon Brown want the power to authorise mines and motorways on behalf of their mates with the click of a pen. Here’s how to fight back.
By Tim Jones What’s the Government planning to do? The recently introduced Fast-track...
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A year on from Gabrielle: are we any further on?
One year ago today, on the afternoon of February 13 2023, the rain was getting more intense, the...
Read MoreVote like your life depends on it … and triple your vote
As people across Aotearoa still struggle to recover from recent extreme weather events, from the winds in Southland, flash floods in Queenstown, and of course Cyclone Gabrielle, and amid discussions about EQC buyouts and managed...
Read MoreThe Fossil Fuel Industry Should Be On Trial, Not Peaceful Protestors
Press release (2 October 2023) The fossil fuel industry’s predatory delay in acting on climate change should be the prosecutions we see in court today, not those of peaceful protestors, Coal Action Network Aotearoa said today,...
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Technology to the Rescue? Leaking Hydrogen fuels Global Warming
It seems every day there is a new technology announced that will help us in the fight against...
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US Republicans want to accelerate global warming
In the US, conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s...
Read MoreOoops! Hydrogen, on the loose, is worse than CO2
The global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost twelve times stronger than CO2, according to a new study. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO2, burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen....
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CANA activist’s protest trial gets worldwide attention
Photo credit: BMahalski / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Long-term CANA member Rosemary Penwarden gained...
Read MoreGovernment decision to convert steel mill to burn less coal a fantastic move
Press release Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA) today heralded the Government’s decision to help New ZealandSteel cut its coal use by 45% as a huge step in decarbonising the economy and ending coal use in New Zealand....
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The perils of “Green Hydrogen”
“Escapey, explodey expanded polystyrene”. This is how technology advisor Michael Liebreich...
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The new climate denial: adaptation over mitigation
By Cindy Baxter – with a guest post from Lucy The night Cyclone Gabrielle hit my coastal...
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