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Good News For Your Health, Bad News For The Coal Industry: Christchurch Hospital Decides To Use Biomass For Heat
Together with friends from OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health Council, I spent a wet, cold...
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Is Fonterra Really Changing? We Don’t Think So.
by Jeanette Fitzsimons Last November Fonterra reported that they will “only use coal as a...
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Would that Fonterra Would Use Wood!
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Well, actually CANA doesn’t care whether Fonterra uses wood or...
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A Tale Of Two Hospitals
Christchurch is rebuilding two hospitals – the central one and one at Burwood. One is installing...
Read MoreOne Woman Stood Up To Fonterra. Now You Can Follow Her Example.
Now you can use Action Station’s streamlined submission form to tell Environment Canterbury not to let Fonterra build two dirty new coal-fired boilers at its Studholme plant! This is Selva. Along with nearly 3000 other New...
Read MoreSubmit Now On Fonterra’s Proposed Coal-Fired Studholme Dairy Factory Expansion
Already know the issues? Download our Quick Submission Guide (Word | PDF) and then submit now against Fonterra’s planned coal-fired Studholme expansion. (Note: All 8 of the listed resource consent applications relate to...
Read MoreFonterra Uses More Coal Than Huntly Coal-Fired Power Station
Fonterra is now the second largest user of coal in New Zealand, using more coal than the Huntly coal-fired power station, according to our new research (see table below). This highlights the company’s contribution to climate...
Read MoreAuckland Coal Action Exposes Fonterra’s Dirty Secret: Coal
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 MoreFonterra Sneaks Round The Corner
Jeanette Fitzsimons writes… Fonterra’s subsidiary Glencoal has put its plans for an open cast mine on SH2 at Mangatangi on hold indefinitely. The local community is celebrating. They worked very hard with submissions on...
Read MoreThe Unequal Battle for the Environment: Update On Mangatawhiri Hearings, 3 September
Jeanette Fitzsimons follows up her earlier report, Second Elephant Needed at Mangatawhiri: Today there was no elephant, despite the need for two. It just shows how hard it is for unpaid voluntary activists to be there all the...
Read MoreSecond Elephant Needed at Mangatawhiri
Today began the second week of hearings on Glencoal’s (a wholly owned coal mining subsidiary of Fonterra’s who sell only to their parent company) application for consents to construct an open cast coal mine on 30 ha of farmland...
Read MoreCan We Make Steel Without Coal?
In this article, Jeanette Fitzsimons considers an issue with very important implications for both the coal industry and the prospects of making major greenhouse gas emissions reductions: whether, and to what extent, we can make...
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