• Draft Programme is now available: http://coalaction.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CANA-Summerfest-Draft-Programme.pdf
• Email coalactionnetwork@gmail.com now to ask for your Registration Pack by return email

Registrations for CANA Summerfest 2017 Are Now Open!

Registrations for the CANA Summerfest 2017 are now open. Don’t delay – get your request for a Registration Pack in to coalactionnetwork@gmail.com and we’ll send you one by return email.

Growth in the dairy industry is resurrecting coal – and killing the climate. 95% of Fonterra’s milk is made into powder for export and most of the powder is dried using coal – the dirtiest fossil fuel on the planet. There is an alternative. Fonterra could use wood waste – but while there’s no price on carbon they have no incentive to do this.  They won’t stop using coal until we make them stop.

Our COAL, COWS and CLIMATE Summerfest will include all levels of participation for a weekend of family-friendly networking, sharing, nvda (nonviolent direct action) training and action.

Registrations are now open. REGISTER NOW! Email coalactionnetwork@gmail.com to express your interest and ask for a registration pack with everything you need to know, including your registration form and details of how to book accommodation.

When: Noon Saturday 21 January-noon Monday 23 January
Where? Ashburton Holiday Park, Tinwald Domain, Maronan Rd, Ashburton
Accommodation bookings and cost: See details below. Limited discounted accommodation available – you can book accommodation right away (see below).
Registration cost:  (covers meals, hall hire etc but not accommodation)
– One day:    $50 waged, $40 unwaged, $40 early bird (payment received by 5 January)
– Two days:  $75 waged, $65 unwaged, $65 early bird (payment received by 5 January)
– Children: under 5s free, 5-15 years half price
Registration cost includes Sat lunch + dinner, Sun breakfast, lunch + dinner, Mon breakfast + lunch.
If cost is a barrier, let us know!

More about the venue

Ashburton Holiday Park, Tinwald Domain, Maronan Rd, Ashburton (on the right as you are going south out of Ashburton)
Map link:  http://www.wises.co.nz/l/ashburton+holiday+park+/#c/-43.925588/171.708171/15/
Camp link http://www.ashburtonholidaypark.co.nz/

More about accommodation

Accommodation costs – CANA has reserved a number of beds at a discount price – book now, first in, first served!

Backpackers – $15/night
6-bedroom cabin – $20/night per person, $10 per child
Tent site – $25 for 2 people and $10 per extra adult or child, up to 6 people per site

Contact Torfrida Wainwright 03 382-0580 or 021-107 3937 to make your accommodation booking. 

Once the discounted beds have been allocated, people are welcome to contact the camp site for additional beds.  Other options in the area are:

• Coronation Holiday Park – about 7 minutes drive away in middle of Ashburton
• Various motels
• Billets with people in Christchurch may also be available

Further details are in the registration pack.

Full information about transport, including buses and car-pooling from Christchurch, are included in the registration pack.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1547705408589281/

KEEP THE COAL IN THE HOLE!

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CANA has said repeatedly that our analysis is that the plant will never be built. There is no incentive to expand dairying, especially irrigated dairying, at a milk price less than $6.50/kg MS. At that price there are lower cost producers overseas ready to move into the market ahead of us.

Last week Auckland Coal Action’s very effective and funny action Stop the Greenwash outside Fonterra’s head office led to a visit from their PR staff, one of whom told them the coal-guzzling Studholme would not be built for lack of milk.

We wish we could have saved those hard working farmers the millions their company put into the planning process for a consent they don’t need. Peak milk anyone?

But while Fonterra may have bailed out on their Studholme plans, they are still the company most responsible for keeping the New Zealand coal industry afloat. That’s why the CANA Summerfest, January 2017 is being held in Ashburton in mid-Canterbury, right in Fonterra’s heartland, where the connection between dairying’s rampant appetite for water, its rampant appetite for coal, and its contribution to the alarming growth in methane emissions is very evident.

Registrations are now open – email coalactionnetwork@gmail.com if you’re interested in attending, and we’ll get back to you with registration details very soon!

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Outside a Fonterra distribution plant in Christchurch

Growth in the dairy industry is resurrecting coal – and killing the climate.

Join us 21-23 January for a summer camp: network with other activists, share information and stories, learn more about NVDA and plan an action.

Registrations will open on Thursday 15 December. In the meantime, please email coalactionnetwork@gmail.com to express your interest, and we’ll send you a registration pack with full details once registrations open.

When: Noon Saturday 21 January-noon Monday 23 January
Where? Ashburton Holiday Park, Tinwald Domain, Maronan Rd, Ashburton
Attendance cost: The cost is being finalised at the moment and will be confirmed in the registration pack.
Accommodation bookings and cost: See details below. Limited discounted accommodation available – you can book accommodation right away (see below).

More about the venue

Ashburton Holiday Park, Tinwald Domain, Maronan Rd, Ashburton (on the right as you are going south out of Ashburton)
Map link:  http://www.wises.co.nz/l/ashburton+holiday+park+/#c/-43.925588/171.708171/15/
Camp link http://www.ashburtonholidaypark.co.nz/

More about accommodation

Accommodation costs – CANA has reserved a number of beds at a discount price – book now, first in, first served!

Backpackers – $15/night
2-bedroom cabin – $25/night per person
6-bedroom cabin – $20/night per person, $10 per child
Tent site – $25 for 2 people and $10 per extra adult or child, up to 6 people per site

Contact Torfrida Wainwright 03 382-0580 or 021-107 3937 to make your accommodation booking. 

Once the discounted beds have been allocated, people are welcome to contact the camp site for additional beds.  Other options in the area are:

• Coronation Holiday Park – about 7 minutes drive away in middle of Ashburton
• Various motels
• Billets with people in Christchurch may also be available

Further details will be in the registration pack.

Full information about transport, including buses and car-pooling from Christchurch, will be included in the registration pack.

Registrations will open on Thursday 15 December. Until then, to find out more or express your interest in attending: please email coalactionnetwork@gmail.com. We’ll send you a registration pack, including full payment details, once registrations open.

KEEP THE COAL IN THE HOLE!

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