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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. ....
Energy and utility manager Tony Oosten said the company was working through its coal supply options. “Bathurst will continue to supply us under current contract and terms until the end of this season, and then we will source a new coal supply for the next season.” Supplied Bathurst s Canterbury coal mine is set to close in June. He said Fonterra had contingency plans if there was any supply disruption, but could not elaborate on what those were. “Ensuring our sites have a secure and reliable energy supply to process milk, especially during the peak of the dairy season, is important. ....
The news today that Bathurst Resources is to close its Canterbury Coal mine at Coalgate is a wakeup call for Fonterra, whose Darfield plant down the road runs two coal boilers, says Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA). This could spell the end of cheap coal for Fonterra’s Canterbury operations, and should give the company an opportunity to make the switch away from coal, the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel,” said Cindy Baxter, a CANA spokesperson. Fonterra’s Darfield dairy factory has two large, relatively new coal boilers, totalling 75MW, and burns around 90,000 tonnes of coal a year to dry milk ....