Blood On Our Hands: Local climate activists taking on big corporations
It’s easy to think that the future is already fucked. Activists of New Zealand past have lived and died fighting for nuclear disarmament, environmental protections, and the return of stolen land to tangata whenua, fed up by the unjust world they saw around them. But we still face apocalyptic scenes of an uncertain future today. Young activists today are just as fed up but are keen to make a real difference.
Local groups including Extinction Rebellion, Environmental Justice Ōtepoti, Students for Environmental Action, Generation Zero, and School Strike 4 Climate are organised, focused, and passionate about climate justice. Critic talked to some of those involved over the past year to hear about how they shut down a coal mine in Canterbury, and took on a local fertiliser company linked to armed conflict in the Western Sahara.
Bathurst Resource s Canterbury Coal Mine to close
9 Feb, 2021 11:29 PM
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The number of public submissions on the Canterbury Coal Mine expansion plan has now reached about 630 with a hearing date yet to be set. Photo / Supplied
The number of public submissions on the Canterbury Coal Mine expansion plan has now reached about 630 with a hearing date yet to be set. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
A controversial mine that extracts 100,000 tonnes of coal a year in Canterbury will close.
About 35 jobs will be lost from Bathurst Resources closing its Canterbury Coal Mine near Darfield.
The company has blamed the cost of regulatory processes for the closure.