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Sustainable Farming Film Festival
Monday, 19 November 2012, 9:55 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
Practical examples of sustainable farming techniques such as polyface farming, permaculture, forest gardens, edible cattle hedges, biological farming and organics all feature in a Sustainable Farming Film Festival coming to Okato's Hempton Hall next Saturday ... More >>
Climate Justice Taranaki contradicts Todd
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 11:49 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
In a recent submission to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE), Climate Justice Taranaki (CJT) has highlighted the complex issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in New Zealand and their far reaching impacts, should ... More >>
Radioactive waste to sit on farms for billions of years?
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 11:49 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
'Climate Justice Taranaki say the regional council have known about radioactivity concerns associated with the drilling industry since at least 1997 and that their response to questions around radioactivity concerns is not good enough. New evidence ... More >>
Planting a future without oil
Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 1:20 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Last year Climate Justice Taranaki organised a protest outside the ENEX oil and gas conference at the TSB stadium. We stood in the rain and were faced with more police and security than people making a stand against the drilling. This week a similar, ... More >>
Community call for audit of Regional Council
Friday, 27 July 2012, 3:05 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Climate Justice Taranaki and concerned community groups across the country are launching a campaign tomorrow (Saturday 28 July) to call on the Auditor General to scrutinise Taranaki Regional Council's regulation of the oil and gas industry. More >>
Community Release Frack Report for "Dirty As" tour
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 5:03 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Climate Justice Taranaki have teamed up with some other concerned locals to put on a public tour of some of Taranaki's 39 frack sites this Saturday 28 July. They will also be releasing a report on the Taranaki Regional Council's mismanagement of oil ... More >>
True sustainability not green growth
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 11:20 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
This year's Yale University environmental performance index ranks New Zealand 14th out of 146 countries worldwide, slipping from first place in 2006. Geoff Ross, co-founder of green growth business lobby group Pure Advantage says New Zealand relies heavily ... More >>
Coal Seam Gas Nightmare
Thursday, 31 May 2012, 12:04 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
"Do we really want Eastern Taranaki to turn into an industrial wasteland?" asks Climate Justice Taranaki spokesperson Teresa Goodin in response to Solid Energy's announcement to focus on coal seam gas in Taranaki. More >>
Nationwide groups join for frack free Aotearoa/NZ
Monday, 7 May 2012, 9:16 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
A national gathering of scientists, farmers, councilors, parents and activists from groups around the country met today in Wellington to srategise for a frack free Aotearoa/NZ. The movement to stop fracking in Aotearoa is growing strongly as more and more frack-free ... More >>
Fracking inquiry welcomed, moratorium now
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 4:58 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
"Climate Justice Taranaki is delighted that the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, is launching an official investigation into the environmental impacts of fracking. We hope the inquiry will use independent research not that from ... More >>
The tide is turning – Frack Free Communities springing up
Monday, 12 March 2012, 11:07 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
The public is fast awakening to just how risky and damaging fracking (hydraulic fracturing) and the discharge of fracking associated wastes is to our land, water, human and animal health. They want fracking out! More >>
Taranaki support activists on drillship
Friday, 24 February 2012, 10:13 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
News has just broken that about seven Greenpeace activists including actress Lucy Lawless (Xena Warrior Princess) have boarded the drillship Noble Discoverer in the Port of New Plymouth. More >>
Councils, consents, and a ‘fractured’ future for NZ
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 1:11 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Climate Justice Taranaki urges councils to consider the full impacts of oil and gas extraction involving hydraulic fracturing (fracking), before granting consents. “Taranaki, East Coast, Canterbury, Southland and other regions targeted by aggressive industry ... More >>
Fracking not safe says Climate Justice Taranaki
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 5:19 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Climate Justice Taranaki is not surprised by the Taranaki Regional Council's (TRC) report today saying that fracking is safe given their track record of negligent monitoring. More >>
Waitara community erect fracking dump signs
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 4:10 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
Taranaki locals participated in today's 'National Day of Action Against Fracking' by erecting warning signs around a toxic frack waste dumpsite in Waitara. "We erected several signs today around BTW's Brown Rd landfarm warning the community to keep ... More >>
Labour likely to call for moratorium on fracking
Friday, 4 November 2011, 5:19 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
"The tide is definitely turning with land-owners, community groups, hapu and now more political parties standing up against fracking. We are expecting the Labour Party to follow the growing movement against fracking when they release their environmental ... More >>
Oil spill spells time for change
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 5:02 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
"Where are the booms and scoops to collect the leaking oil from the Rena?" asks Climate Justice Taranaki. More >>
Toxic water and toxic milk from oil industry? What the frack
Friday, 7 October 2011, 12:40 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
In the midst of a potentially massive oilspill near Tauranga “Climate Justice Taranaki can now point to evidence of council approved spreading of toxic fracking and drilling wastes onto land that will be grazed by cows” says spokesperson Urs Signer. More >>
Was or is Taranaki fracking illegal?
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 1:25 pm | Climate Justice Taranaki
A recent Official Information Act request by local group Climate Justice Taranaki (CJT) reveals that fracking and drilling now suddenly need a consent from the Taranaki Regional Council under the Resource Management Act (RMA). The climate group is investigating ... More >>
Climate Justice Taranaki appalled by Govt's Energy Strategy
Saturday, 3 September 2011, 11:08 am | Climate Justice Taranaki
The Government's new Energy Strategy 2011-2021 is a death knell to NZ's clean, green and sustainable future. "While Acting Minister Hekia Parata pays lip service to renewable energy and environmental responsibility for the so-called "benefit of all New Zealanders", ... More >>
