Category: news stories
Takitumu Mine Occupation, May 2022
Posted by Rob Taylor | Jun 5, 2022 | actions, Bathurst Resources, blockade, Coal, dirty dairying, Extinction Rebellion, Fonterra, mining, News, news stories, protest, Southland | 0 |
Thoughts on the 26th UN Climate Summit, COP26
Posted by Rob Taylor | Nov 17, 2021 | carbon emissions, climate negotiations, conferences, News, news stories | 0 |
A major loophole threatens the Zero Carbon bill
Posted by Rob Taylor | Sep 20, 2019 | carbon emissions, consultation, fossil fuels, Jeanette Fitzsimons, News, news stories, press releases, Zero Carbon Act | 0 |
Does Wellington really want to be the coalest litt...
Posted by tjonescan | Aug 26, 2019 | actions, Bathurst Resources, Coal, Extinction Rebellion, Fonterra, News, news stories, NZ Petroleum and Minerals, protest, Straterra, Wellington | 0 |
CANA activist’s protest trial gets worldwide attention
by Rob Taylor | Jun 20, 2023 | conferences, Dunedin, fossil fuels, News, news stories, protest, Queenstown | 0 |
Photo credit: BMahalski / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Long-term CANA member Rosemary Penwarden gained...
Read MoreTakitumu 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...
Read MoreThoughts on the 26th UN Climate Summit, COP26
by Rob Taylor | Nov 17, 2021 | carbon emissions, climate negotiations, conferences, News, news stories | 0 |
“Humankind cannot bear much reality” -T.S. Eliot The UN-sponsored Conference of Parties (COP) was...
Read MoreA major loophole threatens the Zero Carbon bill
by Rob Taylor | Sep 20, 2019 | carbon emissions, consultation, fossil fuels, Jeanette Fitzsimons, News, news stories, press releases, Zero Carbon Act | 0 |
Forty-two organisations have written to Environment Minister David Parker about the loophole,...
Read MoreDoes 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...
Read MorePress release: Te Kuha is first conservation test of new Government – Coal Action Network Aotearoa
by tjonescan | Nov 22, 2017 | news stories, politics, press releases, Te Kuha, West Coast, West Coast | 0 |
The first test of whether there has been a real change in conservation policy will be the government’s decision on whether to allow a coal mining company to remove the mountaintop in a West Coast Conservation park, Coal Action...
Read MoreAuckland Coal Action Exposes Fonterra’s Dirty Secret: Coal
by tjonescan | Jun 14, 2015 | Auckland Coal Action, carbon emissions, Fonterra, Hamilton, Jeanette Fitzsimons, news stories, protest, wood | 0 |
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 MoreNational’s Mining Agenda Has Failed
by tjonescan | Sep 10, 2014 | mining, National Party, news stories, politics | 2 |
So it’s come to this: The National-led Government’s ambition to have the mining, and separate oil and gas sector, underpin economic recovery has borne little long term gains in its past two terms. – from mining...
Read MoreAscot Park Hotel In Invercargill Ruins Its Sustainability Story By Choosing Lignite
by tjonescan | Jan 13, 2014 | Coal Action Murihiku, lignite, news stories, Southland | 0 |
This is a guest post by Coal Action Murihiku member Dave Kennedy from Invercargill. Last year Environment Southland revealed that both Invercargill and Gore had exceeded air pollution standards multiple times due to the on going...
Read MoreFellowship of the Drill? What was our PM thinking?
by Cana Admin | Jul 29, 2013 | climate negotiations, coal industry, John Key, mining, news stories, oil drilling, politics | 0 |
Our charming Prime Minister – and Minister of Tourism – has excelled himself with his latest video promoting drilling, fracking and the general digging up of our beautiful country and its offshore marine environment....
Read MoreCoal Action Network Aotearoa Newsletter October 2012
by Cana Admin | Oct 31, 2012 | asset sales, Auckland Coal Action, Bathurst Resources, CAN Aotearoa newsletter, climate change, Denniston, economics, fossil fuels, fracking, mining, news stories, Solid Energy, Southland, Straterra, submissions, supporter updates, uncategorized | 0 |
Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook If the New Zealand cricket team needs a new spinner to replace Daniel Vettori, they need look no further than mining industry lobby group Straterra. Perhaps because Solid Energy is in a...
Read MoreMining plan ‘pure lunacy’, lobby group says
by tjoneslists | Sep 30, 2012 | Denniston, economics, Just Transitions, news stories, politics | 0 |
Coal Action Network Spokesperson Kristin Gillies on TVNZ’s Breakfast explaining why we think opening another coal mine is not the answer to the West Coast’s economic crisis. view here……. All Solid Energy...
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