There’s nothing better than seeing a big corporate fall hook line and sinker. And that’s just what Solid Energy have done for the Save Happy Valley Campaign (SHVC). The small grass roots conservation group have put out a report called the ‘Solid Energy Environment Report’ that is “a little more honest than usual”. It’s revealing, it’s funny and it’s cutting.
Here’s an extract :
This year solid energy successfully extracted more than 4.7 million tons of coal, contributing 10.3 million tonnes of climate changing carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere. we made progress with our mountain top removal project (despite significant delays), and used a legal loophole in the Court to continue driving an endemic New Zealand species to extinction…
The best the folks at solid energy could have hoped for was that the report wouldn’t get too much publicity and we wouldn’t notice … but instead they began publicising it themselves by trying to have it quashed in the court. Not only did they draw attention to the report’s existence but they failed.
The report can be downloaded from the Save Happy Valley website in two parts at high res but there is a more bandwidth friendly version posted on the NZ indymedia site
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wow!