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    Coal - by frog



    Tonight Jeanette will be speaking in Ilam, Christchurch, and releasing the Green Party’s coal policy. In the mean time here’s some coal related videos. You may have heard Gerry Brownlee talking about ‘sexy coal‘ but this General Electric ‘ecomagination‘ ad campaign from a couple of years ago actually uses sex appeal to sell coal. No [...] read more
    April 22, 2008 1:45 pm - 11 Comments
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    Earth Day - by frog



    In case you missed the street parades and glitzy advertising campaign, I thought I’d better remind you that today is Earth Day.  A traditional Earth Day activity is to show a picture of the Earth, which reminds us how compact and small our planet is, such as this one taken from Apollo 8 in 1968. [...] read more
    April 22, 2008 1:20 pm - 6 Comments
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    Spies - by frog



    Solid Energy’s contracted private investigation company, Thompson and Clark Investigations (TCIL) has been caught trying to infiltrate the Save Happy Valley Coalition again. Having read Nicky Hager’s Sunday Star Times expose on the topic I was inclined to give TCIL’s Gavin Clark top marks for going about his spying in the traditional manner that we [...] read more
    April 20, 2008 8:09 pm - 3 Comments
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    Solid Energy trumpets its environmental performance - by frog



    Yesterday Solid Energy was complaining that snails and associated protests had cost it millions of dollars. Today it is celebrating it’s greenness by talking about the snails it is saving and how it’s carbon emissions were less that its offsets last year (probably thanks in part to protests by the Save Happy Valley crew which [...] read more
    March 27, 2008 4:19 pm - 6 Comments
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    Celebrating a loss - by frog



    Solid Energy is in the news blaming protesters for its loss of $2.7 million dollars for the year. If only. Actually a lot of that loss came from costs associated with its legal requirement to move the threatened Powelliphanta Augustus snail. Remember that the Department of Conservation’s original recommendation to the Minister was that the [...] read more
    March 26, 2008 1:37 pm - 14 Comments
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    Sour grapes - by frog



    Doesn’t the police response to the Rainbow Warrior protest yesterday sound a little bit unnecessarily miffed? It’s a bit hard to blame Greenpeace for a lone constable being attacked in a brawl in central Christchurch, when it was the police that decided protecting the property on a coal export ship was 30 times more important [...] read more
    March 26, 2008 10:19 am - 6 Comments
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    Rainbow Warriors target NZ’s coal export industry - by frog



    The great thing about blogs is their ability to respond to breaking news. Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior blog is currently right at the centre of the Lyttelton Harbour news of the three activists from the Rainbow Warrior who have made it across to the coal exporting ship, Hellenic Sea, in a fast inflatable boat and have [...] read more
    March 25, 2008 7:47 pm - 15 Comments
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    Peak Everything, by Don Elder - by frog



    I have just finished reading Richard Heinberg‘s latest book, Peak Everything. It is a collection of essays that explore the causes and effects of many resource limits. In short, we’re in for a bumpy ride and I highly recommend the book. Today, for some reason I’ve already forgotten, I was reviewing the powerpoint of Don [...] read more
    March 20, 2008 4:02 pm - 59 Comments
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    Oil is US$101 - by frog



    That’s all I’ve got to say on that today. Lucky we’ve got coal eh? read more
    February 21, 2008 2:16 pm - 10 Comments
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    Peak Coal: my feelings of F.U.D. - by frog



    I have always had feelings of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, (FUD) about the New Zealand Energy Strategy‘s rosy response to peak oil, forecasting a future rich in fossil fuels: Higher prices and other technologies will also prompt the extraction of liquid fossil fuels from sources such as gas, oil-rich shales and lignite. There are immense [...] read more
    February 18, 2008 11:46 am - 13 Comments
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