Category: politics
High Noon in Aotearoa, Part 1
Posted by Rob Taylor | Jul 3, 2023 | Aotearoa, Labour Party, Satire | 0 |
CLIMATE ACTION FOR AOTEAROA – CANA SUBMISSION TO T...
Posted 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 |
The Zero-Carbon Act and the amended Emissions Trad...
Posted by Rob Taylor | Nov 11, 2019 | carbon emissions, climate change, climate negotiations, ETS, Extinction Rebellion, News, politics, submissions, ZCB, Zero Carbon Act | 0 |
Years Of Pressure On Oil and Gas Exploration Pay O...
Posted by tjonescan | Apr 18, 2018 | carbon emissions, climate change, Just Transitions, natural gas, News, oil drilling, politics, protest | 0 |
High Noon in Aotearoa, Part 2
by Rob Taylor | Jul 3, 2023 | Aotearoa, climate policy, politics, Satire | 0 |
In our last episode, Â Sheriff Cabinet Ministers, in the wild west town of Aotearoa, turned away...
Read MoreHigh Noon in Aotearoa, Part 1
by Rob Taylor | Jul 3, 2023 | Aotearoa, Labour Party, Satire | 0 |
It was high noon in the wild west town of Aotearoa. Sheriff Cabinet Ministers was busy at his...
Read MoreCLIMATE 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...
Read MoreThe Zero-Carbon Act and the amended Emissions Trading Scheme
by Rob Taylor | Nov 11, 2019 | carbon emissions, climate change, climate negotiations, ETS, Extinction Rebellion, News, politics, submissions, ZCB, Zero Carbon Act | 0 |
Whilst CANA is disappointed at the many omissions that remain in the ETS and ZCA – despite...
Read MoreIs this the week we lose the US climate battle?
by Cindy Baxter | Sep 23, 2018 | actions, News, politics | 0 |
By Rob Taylor By a 5-4 vote in 2007, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) said that greenhouse gas emissions should be regulated by the EPA under the Clean Air Act; this decision was the legal basis for Obama’s actions on climate....
Read MoreYears Of Pressure On Oil and Gas Exploration Pay Off: Jacinda Ardern Announces An End To Offshore Oil And Gas Block Offers
by tjonescan | Apr 18, 2018 | carbon emissions, climate change, Just Transitions, natural gas, News, oil drilling, politics, protest | 0 |
by Zella Downing. Good on Jacinda Ardern and the current New Zealand government for their courage...
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 MoreUsing the Election to Fight Climate Change
by tjonescan | Sep 19, 2017 | Green Party, Labour Party, National Party, New Zealand First, News, politics | 0 |
Cows, rivers, tractors, pipelines – all prominent in this election campaign. But how about...
Read MoreThe Government Is Trying To Classify Protests At Sea As Terrorism – Submit By Friday
by tjonescan | Aug 16, 2016 | fossil fuels, politics, submissions | 2 |
There have been many famous seaborne protests in New Zealand’s history. Some of them – like the Moruroa ship visits – were even organised by the Government of the day. But the current National Government is...
Read MorePolitical Consensus Grows Around The End Of Thermal Coal
by tjonescan | Aug 31, 2015 | carbon emissions, coking coal, Fonterra, fossil fuels, Green Party, Labour Party, National Party, New Zealand First, politics, Solid Energy, steel | 0 |
For anyone still thinking that mining coal and burning it to provide heat or create electricity (that is, mining thermal coal) is a good way to make a buck, August 2015 was full of bad news. First, Wellington’s Dominion Post...
Read MoreWe put our Heads in the Sand last Sunday. This Monday, it’s time to tell National MPs to Cut the Gap on climate change.
by tjonescan | Dec 13, 2014 | actions, climate negotiations, Generation Zero, National Party, uncategorized | 0 |
We took action last Sunday… Heads in the Sand last Sunday, in which a thousand or so New Zealanders at 12 beaches around the country put their heads in the sand to symbolise the Government’s failure to act on climate...
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...
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