Coal Action Network Aotearoa
LightNews LightNews
banner
coalactionnz.bsky.social
Coal Action Network Aotearoa
@coalactionnz.bsky.social
140 followers 90 following 28 posts
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.
Posts Replies Media Videos
coalactionnz.bsky.social
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
December 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
coalactionnz.bsky.social
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...
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
coalactionnz.bsky.social
8.7% Talley’s ownership. The rest is overseas. And Talley’s is taking legal action against Bathurst.
April 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
coalactionnz.bsky.social
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
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
April 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM