Using the Election to Fight Climate Change
Cows, rivers, tractors, pipelines – all prominent in this election campaign. But how about...
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Category: National Party
Political Consensus Grows Around The End Of Thermal Coal
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.
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
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 MoreWhat agreement did the Government make with Indian coal interests?
Statements made in Indian media by Indian Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma after he met with Energy Minister Simon Bridges on 30 January indicate a clear expectation of some kind of deal between the two Governments on coal, said...
Read MoreChallenge The Government’s Mining Agenda: Wellington, This Thursday
On Thursday 8 August, Simon Bridges, Minister of Energy and Resources is going to the mining club, Straterra, to “discuss how he sees the energy and resources portfolio evolving and his views on challenges facing the...
Read MoreFellowship of the Drill? What was our PM thinking?
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 MoreSolid Energy and the National Government: So Happy Together
“The Government was worried about Solid Energy’s ambitious investment plans and rosy view of coal prices as far back as 2009 but was unable to order the company to steer a safer course, Prime Minister John Key...
Read MoreBathurst Protest A Big Success
John Key decided that opening the new Wellington headquarters of the Australian mining company that plans to open a massive new coalmine on the Denniston plateau is the sort of thing a New Zealand Prime Minister ought to do. A...
Read MoreShow John Key Your Opposition To Coal Mining On Conservation Land!
Next Wednesday 21st March, 5 pm, 1 Willeston Street, Downtown Wellington John Key will officially open Bathurst Resources’ new New Zealand office. Bathurst Resources plan to develop New Zealand’s largest open-cast...
Read MoreStop Sniffing The Lignite, Bill
Press release Monday 12 September 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE USE Coal Action Network Aotearoa today echoed the Deputy Prime Minister’s claim that the beginning of construction on Solid Energy’s planned plant to convert...
Read MoreRevised Energy Strategy shows Government running scared on lignite mining issue
Press release: Coal Action Network Aotearoa Tuesday 29th August 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coal Action Network Aotearoa says that changes to the New Zealand Energy Strategy, released today, show that the Government is running...
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