Tag: climate change
New Canterbury coal mine will have a fight on its hands
PRESS RELEASE If a coal miner – today given a green light to purchase sensitive Canterbury land for its coal – thinks it will be able to build a new coal mine it is likely to face serious opposition, Coal Action...
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Fonterra’s halt on new coal welcome: don’t dash for gas
PRESS RELEASE Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA) today welcomed Fonterra’s commitment to...
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Our submission to the Zero Carbon Bill
The deadline is fast-approaching for submissions to the Zero Carbon Bill. We’ve sent ours in...
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Fonterra puts coal on spin cycle
We appear to have forced Fonterra into defending its coal use. They’ve got a new page on...
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Fonterra: a useful step forward?
By Jeanette Fitzsimons In April, the media reported that Fonterra has carried out a trial of...
Read MoreResponding to Bernie
Coal Action Network Aotearoa was recently approached by the editor of the insider mining magazine “Inside Resources,” Bernie Napp, who had read our submission to MBIE/EECA on process heat and wanted to create a...
Read MoreIs this the week we lose the US climate battle?
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 MoreTe Kuha protection a “victory for the people, climate change, and great spotted kiwi”
PRESS RELEASE 16 June 2018 The decision to protect a section of the West Coast’s Mt Rochfort Conservation area from becoming a coal mine – announced today by the Government – will come as an enormous relief to a lot...
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Chch council should drop climate deniers from expert review panel
PRESS RELEASE The Christchurch City Council should drop the two climate deniers it recently...
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Fonterra finally admits its coal mine is “on hold”
By Jeanette Fitzsimons Fonterra has just confirmed, in a letter to local residents, that its...
Read MoreThe Imperative to Leave it in the Ground
Guest blog by Tarsh Turner, a member of the NZ Youth Delegation at the climate talks in Lima. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been working to avert climate disaster for over two decades....
Read MoreCoal Action Network Aotearoa Newsletter November 2014
What’s in this newsletter? 1. Upcoming Events 2. Heads in the Sand! Join us on December 7 3. The Elections – analysis from Jeanette Fitzsimons 4. The IPCC – and New Zealand’s response 5. Honey I...
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