Fast track Wrong track : Fast decision Wrong decision. For those who want a read, link to decision doc that grants mining in conservation land, new toxic dams and even another pit at Waihī .. doc link at the top of the page… all 346 pages of it..
www.fasttrack.govt.nz/.../waihi-no...
BREAKING: Buller District Council rules out Stevenson's mining being able to dig up the Westport Water Conservation Reserve as part of the Te Kuha #coal mine on the West Coast.
Fantastic news and another nail in the coffin for this really stupid idea. #nzpol
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
Image: westport news 8 dec
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...
There is too much to lose. More mining in a #climatecrisis is ecocide & #BathurstResources & #ANZ are complicit
Register here forms.gle/BXKnrgASFeQa...
@coalactionnz.bsky.social @a22network.bsky.social
NZ’s climate inaction gaining an international reputation
#nzpol
News - “Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action | Drilled
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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
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This is a great day for #climate activism. All charges dismissed!!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Thanks to Shane Jones for giving the Denniston protestors a boost with his press release today - this man would react to a paper bag
Yes, they're still up on the coal conveyor: staunch.
And no, we don't need dirty #coal for the clean energy transition
#nzpost
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mini...
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
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
⛏️ @thepress.co.nz were on the ground as we took over Stockton Mine’s #coal track this morning.
We’re here to protect #DennistonPlateau, to say no to more coal mines & emissions, & demand a #justtransition with jobs outside of the #fossilfuel industry.
@350nz.bsky.social
#StopTheFastTrack
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...
#nzpol
That is true but it’s all three companies applying
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Check this fabulous video of the 70 brave protestors on the Denniston Plateau protesting a potential #climate crime if Bathurst Resources get fast-track consent to mine 20 million tonnes of coal
@climateliberation.bsky.social @350nz.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Ei...
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
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Text: "21st anniversary of the Happy Valley Encampment" A photo of 17 people of various genders, ages and ethnicities holding up a flag that says "worth more than its weight in coal" with a drawing of a fern and a snail. This photo is from the Happy Valley Site of Resistance. Text: "21 years ago this Easter a group of people walked into Happy valley and began a long battle to protect it (with a 2 year encampment). Today we are continuing this important mahi by setting up an encampment on the nearby Denniston plateau. We can’t let mining companies destroy yet another unique, wild and special place. We must protect the Denniston plateau!!"
🏕️ 21 years ago this Easter a group of people walked into Happy Valley & began a long battle to protect it. We are continuing this important mahi on the nearby #DennistonPlateau.
@350nz.bsky.social @coalactionnz.bsky.social
#ProtectDennistonPlateau #EndCoal #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis
8.7% Talley’s ownership. The rest is overseas. And Talley’s is taking legal action against Bathurst.
Make that 70 people, aged from 8 months to 74 years, spending their second night up on the plateau.
“The Fast Track Act could enable companies like Bathurst to ruin precious wild places in pursuit of profit. We’re here to show them, and the government, that people are willing to stand in their way”
A banner saying protect denniston plateau across a coal field
Activists stand at the top of a coal face above a banner saying Just Transition Cool Off
Wide shot of banner reading protect denniston plateau, with a lake in background
Activists at their camp sit in a circle, against a bushclad background
50 #climate activists have been camped up on the West Coast’s Denniston Plateau since Friday, protesting Aussie miner Bathurst Resources’ plans to mine 20 million tonnes of #coal, destroying unique landscape - and the climate
@350nz.bsky.social @climateliberation.bsky.social #nzpol
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
So. #WOMAD: still fossil fuel funded in 2025. OMV’s funding all the sciency stuff this year. Meanwhile the developing countries from whence many of the performers come, is already suffering more fm #climate extremes.
The hypocrisy is real & ugly
#kikorangi
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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...
The NZ govt’s disdain for climate is abundantly clear
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
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_...
