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Got a great release from Save Happy Valley today.

I couldn’t find it online so here it is :

The Save Happy Valley Coalition today sent Solid Energy a bill for $12 million dollars on behalf of the people of New Zealand.

Fugitive methane emissions from coal mining – where gases leak from the coal seam itself – will now be covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme, thanks to changes announced on Monday by the Green Party.

Continue reading ‘Solid Energy sent greenhouse gas bill’

It seems that Solid has reduced production for the year by 250,000 tonnes, in part because of the protests by The Save Happy Valley group.

And so the protest group is now selling “carbon credits” as a fund raiser.

This is great news for the climate! Solid Energy can’t catch up that lost 250,000 tonnes of production, so that’s 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that have been prevented from reaching the atmosphere - the equivalent of taking 170,000 New Zealand cars off the road for a year.

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Today’s revelations by Nick Hager that State Owned Enterprises Solid Energy and Mighty River Power are paying for spies is deeply disturbing. Groups like Save happy Valley have every right to put forward their case in the way that they do and should not be subjected to state sponsored espionage.

Hopefully outing Gavin Clark and his sordid cronies at Thompson & Clark will make it more difficult for them to exploit young students like this in future. It seems they’ve been doing it for some time. As the article below from stuff.co.nz (which has since been take down) shows.

Interesting to find out a little more about Thompson & Clark - whios data for tcil.co.nz reveals nick.thompson@tcil.co.nz as a contact .

I’ll be sending them a message with some suggestions on how they may like to crawl back under their fetid little rock and not come out again until they promise to be decent citizens.

But really. The Government needs to reign in these big old SOEs. Only last week we heard that Genesis energy are going to pick up where Might River Power dropped the ball and take Greenpeace to court over climate change. What a joke! On the one hand we hear Helen Clark and Labour getting all green and sustainable telling us about how we need to be carbon neutral, while their SOEs show the real story behind the rhetoric.

Continue reading ‘Nicky Hager catches Government companies spying on environment groups again’

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

The Save Happy Valley occupation has reached the one year mark apparently making it the longgest occupation of its kind ever in NZ. Go those guys! Check it out! Continue reading ‘The longest environmental protest occupation ever’