Coal Action Network Aotearoa

We’ve been selected to receive grant funding from The Climatics! We’re very excited to be able to announce that Coal Action Network Aotearoa/Te Kāhui Kāti Waro o Aotearoa is one of four organisations which has been selected for inclusion in the latest funding round from The Climatics, the Aotearoa climate philanthropy organisation founded by Pip Wheaton and MJ Bethell.

JOINT PRESS RELEASE FROM NGAA HAUMI, CANA, FOREST & BIRD Today, hapuu, and community and environment groups are tentatively celebrating news that Bathurst Resources is finding it difficult to find a market for the coal from a proposed extension of its its Rotowaro coal mine in North Waikato, and may no longer be applying for Fast-Track approval for the extension.

Today’s post is from James Greenberg, a US political ecologist: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=james%20greenberg “Climate denial didn’t begin with Donald Trump, and it isn’t simply the product of people who don’t understand science. It is older, more organized, and far more intentional than that.

Any war is tragedy wrapped in disaster, but the current Middle East war –  between a repressive theocratic regime that murders protestors in the streets, and a wannabe repressive oligarchic regime that murders protestors in the streets – may yet have a positive outcome for Aotearoa NZ, if it leads to the demise of the current coalition government this November.

The campaign to save the Denniston Plateau from destruction is in full swing, and you and your network can add to the momentum by viewing and sharing this inspiring short documentary, ‘Stand up for Nature: Save Denniston’: https://share.google/1CwTO1kJx4rIo8iew This documentary premiered at Parliament recently; here is the press release from that event, featuring Jenny Patrick OBE, the author of the historical novel, “Denniston Rose”:...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil and gas field decline is accelerating. Now, I’m not advocating for increased extraction of fossil fuels – my concern is that a declining fossil fuel base may interfere with an orderly transition to renewables. When talking about oil and oil fields, there is conventional oil, where you have large easy to access oil fields where the oil flow rate from the fields is high and fast, eg in Saudi Arabia.

Visualising the Fallout By Simon Gascoigne One of our greatest challenges in getting things to a better place, is challenging human thinking and human behaviour. We are embedded and conditioned in a system that has evolved through our history with increased technological complexity. Add in things like debt and time pressure and it’s little wonder more ‘convenient’ and ‘efficient’ solutions are embraced.

PRESS RELEASE Coal Action Network today said it was appalled at today’s announced deal between gentailers to stockpile 600,000 tonnes of dirty coal as a backup for low lake levels. “The solutions to our electricity problem lie in a complex set of actions that are clearly too difficult for our generators and government to get their heads around, so they just go for the blunt instrument of a massive coal stockpile,” said Cindy Baxter of Coal Action Network Aotearoa.

Over the Easter weekend, seventy anti-mining protestors occupied the site of the proposed Bathhurst mine on the uniquely biodiverse Denniston Plateau on the West Coast. Here are two of their stories. NB: This action was organised by 350 Aotearoa and Climate Liberation Aotearoa.

Bathurst Resources, which wants to mine 20 million tonnes of coal from the Denniston Plateau, is not the kind of company New Zealand should be courting: its record clearly shows how much of a bad actor it is, Coal Action Network Aotearoa said today. The group applauded the efforts of the 70-strong encampment that’s been on the Plateau since Friday, protesting Bathurst’s plans to trash the plateau and ultimately consign the emissions from the 20 million tonnes of coal to the atmosphere.