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Coal Action Network Aotearoa

@coalactionnz.bsky.social

Keep the coal in the hole, people. Climate change is the biggest threat to humankind, and to be burning coal in the 21st century is just silly.

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Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Turns out that if you halve Glenbrook's use of coal by building an Electric Arc Furnace, then you get rid of dirty coalmines. Bathurst is struggling to find a buyer for its Rotowaro mine extension at Huntly because Glenbrook is shifting its focus. Great RNZ piece www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Lack of customers forces Bathurst to pause Rotowaro coal mine expansion plans

Almost all of the coal produced at Rotowaro near Huntly goes to the Glenbrook Steel Mill - which is about to fire up a new electric furnace.

rnz.co.nz

Kiwi on your left@kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The cold hard maths says it has COST us (the taxpayer) money to GIVE coal to Australian mining companies. And this government wants to repeat this process again. What's the bet half of nact1 have cushy director roles lined up in all these filthy murderous industries after they retire? #nzpol

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Two things: First, cleanup of Stockton Mine has cost the govt $260m (The Press). Second: at their highest, coal royalties were $3.6m a year. So at best, Bathurst & Talley's would have to mine Denniston coal for 71 years for the government to break even #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · last yr.

A fascinating account of a belligerent Australian coal company in Alberta threatening to sue the govt for asking it to do the same pollution monitoring as the rest of the industry there. This is the same kind of behaviour we saw with Bathurst over ECAN's regulation #nzpol thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Inside an Australian Miner’s Brawl with Alberta Regulators | The Tyee

Told to monitor pollution, Montem issued insults and legal threats, documents reveal.

thetyee.ca

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · last yr.

RIP Pope Francis, a #climate hero: In2015, he said: “Many of those who possess more resources and economic or political power seem mostly to be concerned with masking the problems or concealing their symptoms, simply making efforts to reduce some of the negative impacts of climate change.” #nzpol

Laudato si' (24 May 2015) | Francis

Encyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)

vatican.va

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · last yr.

And let’s not forget those incredibly endangered snails are STILL in a fridge in Reefton: every time they try to re-establish them in a new habitat, it fails. This looks more like extinction than restoration. #nzpol

Climate Liberation Aotearoa@climateliberation.bsky.social · last yr.

🤐 #BathurstResources “restoration plan” is BS and we all know it. Last time they promised this we ended up with the decimation of the rare giant snail Powelliphanta Augustus & destruction of all of its natural habitat. ✊ We don’t let this happen again. Join us climateliberationaotearoa.org/join/

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · last yr.

These 70 have been on the plateau since Friday to protest Bathurst's plans to dig up 20m tonnes of #coal - as Aotearoa recovers from yet another #climate fuelled cyclone. #nzpol @350nz.bsky.social @climateliberation.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

‘Here for the long haul’: Protesters defiant after West Coast mine trespass

Activists who have climbed into coal buckets to interrupt work at Bathurst Resources’ mine in Stockton have been trespassed and threatened with police action.

thepress.co.nz

Tim Jones@timjonesbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Join Oil Free Wellington & @coalactionnz.bsky.social outside Bathurst Resources, 1 Willeston St, Wellington CBD, at 12.30pm on Tuesday to say "No!" to coal and "No!" to the fast-track. Bathurst is the company trying to mine the Denniston Plateau. No new coal! #climate newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/20/p...

Protesters set up camp at fast-tracked coal mine

The occupation is 'the first of many' says 350Aotearoa, who plans to continue to disrupting Bathurst's operations on the West Coast

newsroom.co.nz

CindyBax@cindybax.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Zealand has a massive tree/climate problem. You cannot permanently offset fossil fuel emissions by planting trees. The science sees trees as an "impermanent" sink for fossil carbon, which remains in the atmosphere for as much as 10,000 years. #nzpol

Forest & Bird@forestandbird.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Flogging off the public conservation estate by stealth." Our CE Nicola Toki says public conservation land shouldn't be sold off. Modelling of large-scale permanent pine forests raises red flags about the Government’s attitude towards conservation land. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Russel Norman@russelnorman.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is how the far right works. John Carnegie, a fossil fuel lobbyist, was put on the Board of EECA: "Carnegie had criticised one of [EECA's] functions - giving out grants helping companies get off coal and gas - because it was shrinking demand for fossil fuels" www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Fossil fuel advocate who slammed clean energy grants joins energy agency board

An oil and gas lobbyist was appointed to the board of the country's main energy-saving agency, despite having slammed the agency's clean energy grants as harming the fossil fuel industry.

rnz.co.nz

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · 2y ago

The NZ govt’s disdain for climate is abundantly clear #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Fossil fuel advocate who slammed clean energy grants joins energy agency board

An oil and gas lobbyist was appointed to the board of the country's main energy-saving agency, despite having slammed the agency's clean energy grants as harming the fossil fuel industry.

rnz.co.nz

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good to see media finally picking up on the fact the govt has put a fossil fuel lobbyist who hates renewable on the board of EECA. As set out in Green Party release in December www.greens.org.nz/fossil_fuel_...

Coal Action Network Aotearoa @coalactionnz.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The Minister could look to the sky and pray for more rain, or he could look to the sky and see an answer to our energy security issues and dismal economic growth stats in the form of cheap, abundant solar energy." #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/28/l...

Look to the skies and pray – for sun, not rain

Last year's low lake levels debacle was given as the main reason for Meridian’s big loss, and there is understandable concern that a do-over could be on the horizon, writes Rewiring Aotearoa chief exe...

newsroom.co.nz