Next week Extinction Rebellion Ōtautahi (XRŌ) will be protesting against insurance brokers Marsh, the brokers for Adani’s mega-mine in Australia.
Adani is planning to open the Carmichael mine in an area of cultural and ecological significance in Queensland, and they are currently looking for insurers in order to make this possible. Marsh is helping them to find an insurer that would be willing to be involved with such an ethically problematic project.
“Adani’s mine has been fraught with investors and banks pulling out of the mine due to massive public outcry led by the Stop Adani movement. So far 16 insurance companies have turned Adani down, we are asking Marsh to also say no to Adani” says Anthony Field from XRŌ.
“We need to make it impossible for this coal mine to go ahead, not only because we cannot afford to open new mines in a climate emergency, but also to protect the sacred Aboriginal land from which the Queensland government has stripped Indigenous peoples of their ownership and silenced their voices” says Field.
“We are protesting to educate the public and local Marsh staff about the project, because we think it is unlikely that New Zealanders, particularly after the fires in Australia this summer, will support the project once they know about it. Calls and messages from Marsh staff and the public to the Marsh local and head office will encourage Marsh to do the write thing.”
Over March 16-20 protests against Marsh’s involvement with Adani will be happening across Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Protests in Christchurch will be 7:45-9 AM, Monday to Wednesday, March 16-18, at 12 Papanui Road.
Just a thought from persona non grata. Covid-19 is doing a great job in reducing nasty emissions & people in our over populated world. Remember to stand a yard or 2 apart when protesting please or you’ll be sentenced to self isolation.
Dependance on Hydroelectric seems odd in the face of increasingly severe droughts. There’s about 5 giga watts in global wind and tidal energy, admitidly it’s more concentrated around New Zealand but even in NZ it’s very patchy. And other forms of electricity generation are even less efficient except for Solar and Nuclear.
There are a lot of issues with Nuclear the main one for New Zealand to worry about is we just don’t have the population needed for a Nuclear capable economy. For us to build just 1 Nimitz size carrier would take every man woman and child just toiling on this one project that could power just 20,000 Homes. So I would say New Zealand is about 40 years away from even contemplating Nuclear or a population of about 20 million. One caveat though if the ITER demonstration FUSION reactor (as opposed to FISSON) can be mass produced, FUSION is far less dangerous than Fission with in the next 20-30 years then it may become a competitor for base load energy requirements.
So that just leaves solar. Farley straight forward really. It’s all flat pack IKEA style, installation can be handled by some one with a basic trade certificate. There’s no dangerous goods, evacuation protocols it’s all safe from the get go.
So the longer we delay the implementation of a national renewables program and the electrification of the national motor pool we will always be 20 years away from achieving energy independence.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/will-adanis-carmichael-coal-mine-go-ahead/news-story/8891bb05b9590c5f12e0d2c226039a04
Concerns about the mine’s potential impact on climate change have continued to grow, particularly after a report from the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested the use of coal-powered electricity would have to be cut to practically nothing by 2050 to keep global warming to 1.5C.
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