Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 12:21 pm
As Minister for Energy and Resources Hon Dr Megan Woods
officially opened Fonterra’s wood pellet boiler at its Te
Awamutu plant, the Co-operative announced details for its
next site to exit coal - Stirling cheese plant in
Otago.
Otago’s ‘fantastic little cheese plant’,
will be coal free and using wood biomass to fire the site by
August next year.
This will make Stirling Fonterra’s
first 100% renewable thermal energy site, a significant step
towards the Co-op’s goal of getting out of coal all
together by 2037.
By switching to wood biomass, the
site’s annual emissions will reduce by 18,500 tonnes of
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Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 3:10 pm
How open should researchers be with what they do to
animals in experiments? That’s the question being
discussed at a conference on openness in animal
research.
The conference is being hosted by the
Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals
in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART). The conference is
primarily composed of industry representatives and animal
researchers, but for the first time ever the New Zealand
Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS) is attending.
This is
the first time an animal advocacy group has attended the
event, in keeping with progress towards openness. But the
Executive Director of the NZAVS, Tara Jackson, says some
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:10 pm
The New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) has added
its voice to the concerns already expressed by the Central
Otago community and Predator
Free NZ about feral cats being released
onto rural properties in an attempt to manage rabbit and
rodent populations. We acknowledge that the intention
of the programme comes from a good place. However, we share
concerns about the impacts these cats will have on the
native wildlife population, says Dr Helen Beattie, NZVA’s
Chief Veterinary Officer. There is no guarantee that
the cats will only hunt rabbits and rodents. Native species
will also be hunted, as we know that cats are not specific
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:32 pm
Joint Press Release from Snow Machine and
NZSki.
Organisers of the highly anticipated Snow
Machine festival have made the decision to push the event
out by three weeks, following the pause of the Trans-Tasman
bubble on Friday.
The event, which is in partnership
with Coronet Peak and The Remarkables, will now take place
in Queenstown between September 29 – October 2,
2021.
Snow Machine co-founder Quentin Nolan says the
bubble closure wasn’t the news he and fellow organisers
were after, but the show will go
on.
“With many of our 5,000
festival-goers and artists coming from across the Tasman, we
have made the decision to push ahead with new festival