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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...

Fonterra’s halt on new coal welcome: don’t dash for gas

by Cindy Baxter | Jul 18, 2019 | Fonterra | 0 |

PRESS RELEASE Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA) today welcomed Fonterra’s commitment to...

Our submission to the Zero Carbon Bill

by Cindy Baxter | Jul 12, 2019 | Zero Carbon Act | 0 |

The deadline is fast-approaching for submissions to the Zero Carbon Bill. We’ve sent ours in...

Fonterra puts coal on spin cycle

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 27, 2019 | Fonterra | 0 |

We appear to have forced Fonterra into defending its coal use. They’ve got a new page on...

Fonterra: a useful step forward?

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 12, 2019 | Coal, Fonterra | 0 |

By Jeanette Fitzsimons In April, the media reported that Fonterra has carried out a trial of...

Responding to Bernie

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 5, 2019 | Coal | 2 |

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...

Is 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....

Te Kuha protection a “victory for the people, climate change, and great spotted kiwi”

by Cindy Baxter | Jun 16, 2018 | Aotearoa, Coal, fossil fuels, News, press releases, Te Kuha, West Coast | 0 |

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...