The climate and ecological crisis movement Extinction Rebellion says yesterday’s Wellington exposure of the coal industry’s biggest players is designed to highlight the enormous damage the quartet is doing to the environment.
“The mining and burning of coal is the single greatest threat to the world’s climate,” says event spokesperson Tim Jones. “Bathurst Resources mined more than two million tonnes of coal in 2017. That’s more than the size of 30 Te Papa museums.
“In 2017, the emissions of Fonterra alone were the approximate equivalent of the emissions of 185,000 cars…
