Contained on this page are various campaign resources, including campaign updates, press releases, court documents and a variety of other related resources that may be of interest.
Campaign Updates
Dear Friends
Earlier this year New Zealand finally reached the end of the line for coal fired power stations. It must also be the end of the line for coal mining ~ Graham Jury, SHV Chch Spokesperson.
This year, the Save Happy Valley Coalition has been busy exposing Don Elder hiring spies, blockading trains, occupying proposed mine sites, debating climate change, fighting court battles, fundraising, and preparing our defense against defamation. Read on!
Includes details of the 1st anniversary of the occupation celebration, verdicts from the High and Environment court cases, details of Solid Energy's intimidation and other updates.
Includes an update on Mt. Augustus, the recent acquittal of Happy Valley activists, recent news and upcoming events.
Includes updates on the the situation in the Valley, the occupation, the recent court filings against Solid Enery and other updates.
Includes information about the occupation, the Mt Augustus decision, Easter tramp, various other updates on what's been happening around the country and a list of ways you can get involved with the campaign.
Includes information about the occupation so far, Wellington street theatre, activists in court, world walker Gregor Siebock, an Augustus update as well as information about how you can get hold of Happy Valley postcards.
Includes information about the upcoming occupation, a Mt. Augustus update, creation of Wellington and Auckland groups, the third national hui, availability of postcards and posters as well as other recent news.
Includes information about the recent High Court Rulings, announcement of the upcoming indefinite occupation, information about Mt. Augustus mining and a variety of other happenings and upcoming events.
Includes a run-down on the coal train blockade, Solid Energy's bullying tactics and decision to destory snail habitat, an appeal for public involvement in the campaign and a variety of other protests and events that SHVC have been up to.
Includes details of the lock-on at Solid Energy headquarters, the leaflet drop on the West Coast and the Environment Court decision.
Includes information about the second Happy Valley camp-out, the tree-sit and hunger strike, details of the Solid Energy HQ lawn dig and a variety of other protests.
Includes an invitation to the second Happy Valley camp-out, the Environment Court appeal and the possibility of a new coal-fired power station on the West Coast.
Includes the decision by local councils to allow the mine to go ahead as well as information about the Gouland Downs kiwi transfer and some upcoming events.
Resource Consent Submission
Pete Lusk — Buller Conservation Group
Rick Barber — Te Runanga o Ngati Waewae
Te Whe Weepu — Te Runanga o Ngati Waewae
Vanessa Atkinson — Greenpeace
Tony Lockwood — Forest & Bird
Dean van Mierlo — DoC
John Lyall — DoC
Philip Knightbridge — DoC
Kath Walker — DoC
Miscellaneous
- Bruce Stuart-Menteath :: 19th July 2008
- Save Happy Valley Coalition :: 6th December 2007
- Save Happy Valley Christchurch :: 28th September 2007
- Anna-Claire Hunter :: 15th May 2007
- Pete Lusk :: 16th April 2007
- Pete Lusk :: 20th December 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 15th December 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 24th September 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 2nd September 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 21st April 2006
- Tessa :: 13th April 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 20th March 2006
- Duncan Eddy :: 13th March 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 25th February 2006
- Pete Lusk :: 11th January 2006
- Forest & Bird Press Release :: 16th December 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 4th December 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 21st November 2005
- Francie Mountier :: 21st November 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 10th October 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 22nd September 2005
- Forest & Bird Press Release :: 26th August 2005
- Forest & Bird Press Release :: 16th August 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 10th July 2005
- Forest & Bird Press Release :: 8th July 2005
- Green Party Press Release :: 27th May 2005
- The Press :: 5th May 2005
- Forest & Bird Press Release :: 17th April 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 19th March 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 6th March 2005
- Pete Lusk :: 1st November 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 21st August 2004
- Green Party Press Release :: 3rd August 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 31st July 2004
- Nelson Mail :: 30th July 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 15th July 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 1st July 2004
- Pete Lusk, Buller Conservation Group and West Coast Forest & Bird :: 1st June 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 1st June 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 1st June 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 1st June 2004
- Tom Street :: 1st June 2004
- Carolyn Wood :: 30th April 2004
- Pete Lusk :: 1st February 2004
Press Releases
19th July 2008 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
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20th April 2008 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
12th April 2008 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
24th February 2008 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
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7th December 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
20th September 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
13th September 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
15th August 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
14th August 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Save Happy Valley Christchurch, in conjunction with Coal Action Network, are hosting a public forum tonight featuring Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, renowned Antarctic and climate change scientist Professor Peter Barrett and a speaker on the local impacts of coal mining. The forum will be held in the William Sutton Room, Arts Centre, Christchurch, and starts at 7pm.
26th July 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is about to re-launch the Environment Report on their website with a slightly altered front page, following the interim court proceedings brought by Solid Energy against Frances Mountier, over the publication of the 2006 mock Environment Report.
24th July 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
A member of the Save Happy Valley Coalition will be arguing the right to use parody as a means of criticising corporate behaviour in court on Wednesday. The activist is being sued by state-owned coal miner Solid Energy for publishing a mock report on the company's environmental performance.
9th July 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Three Save Happy Valley activists will appear in the Christchurch District Court on Tuesday morning at 10am, in relation to the blockade of a coal train on Sunday 29th April. Members and supporters of the anti-coal mining group will hold a vigil in their support from 9:45am.
7th July 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is appalled at the irresponsible arrogance shown by the board of Solid Energy, who have publicly expressed their faith in CEO Don Elder despite revelations of extensive use of a spy by the company against activists opposed to their environmentally destructive practices.
2nd July 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is expressing its solidarity with over 800 miners currently engaged in industrial action after negotiations for their MECA (multi-employer contract agreement) have thus far failed to achieve their demands of a 5 - 5.5% pay rise.
26th June 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Three groups laid a complaint today with the Private Investigators Registrar, asking that the matter of the spies employed by private investigators Thompson and Clark be referred to the Police for a criminal investigation.
12th June 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition will launch new carbon credits into the market today, after Solid Energy blamed the group for a reduction in coal production from its opencast Stockton Mine.
3rd June 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is deeply disturbed by the latest revelations in the SOE spy scandal. In today's Sunday Star Times, Andrew Gibson, owner of Gibson Security, is quoted as saying his firm stopped providing their services to Solid Energy in late 2006 over concerns about the unethical behaviour being engaged in, including the placing of a spy in the Christchurch Save Happy Valley group.
30th May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Christchurch Save Happy Valley group met Tuesday night with Ryan, the infiltrator hired by Thompson & Clark Investigations to gather information for state owned enterprise Solid Energy. The Save Happy Valley Coalition is today reiterating its demand for the resignation of CEO Don Elder for engaging in devious, underhanded and illegal practices.
28th May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is rubbishing the claim of Solid Energy CEO Don Elder that his company only acts in "legal, moral and ethical" ways after a spy was found to have infiltrated the Christchurch Save Happy Valley group, employed by private investigation firm Thompson & Clark who were in turn hired by Solid Energy.
27th May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is calling for the immediate resignation of CEO Don Elder following a Sunday Star Times expose of Solid Energy's use of an infiltrator into the Christchurch Save Happy Valley group.
24th May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has laid a complaint with the Commerce Commission about deceptive and misleading conduct under section 9 of the Fair Trading Act after government-owned company Solid Energy claimed that the conservation status of the carnivorous Powelliphanta "Augustus" snails had been downgraded.
10th May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has slammed the publication of an Environment Report by Solid Energy. The Coalition released its own report on Solid Energy in February this year.
3rd May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Three Save Happy Valley Christchurch activists appeared this morning (Thursday May 3rd) in the Christchurch District Court and to plead not guilty to "interferes with a rail line" (Simon Riddell and Gregory Curline) and "communicating with a prisoner" (Anna-Claire Hunter, for passing a bottle of water to Riddell and Curline) in relation to a blockade of a coal train on Sunday April 29th.
2nd May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Three members of Save Happy Valley Christchurch will appear in the Christchurch District Court at 10am on Thursday May 3rd over charges stemming from the blockade of a coal train in Templeton on Sunday April 29th in protest against state-owned miner Solid Energy's planned open-cast coal mine in Happy Valley on the West Coast.
2nd May 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Solid Energy is continuing with a defamation lawsuit against members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition, despite being told off by the National Party's Gerry Brownlee for "wasting taxpayers' money."
30th April 2007 :: Powelliphanta Augustus Incorporated
Powelliphanta Augustus Incorporated is highlighting the inadequacy of New Zealand's law after the High Court today found against their appeal.
29th April 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Save Happy Valley members have locked onto the train tracks near Christchurch to call for an end to new coal mines in New Zealand. Other members have hung a twenty-two metre banner – 'Solid Energy: Govt Sponsored Climate Chaos – along two of the coal wagons.
26th April 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is calling for Solid Energy to cut its losses and stop its destruction of the last remaining habitat the critically-endangered native land snail Powelliphanta augustus. The state-owned coal miner has spent millions to move the snails, but all the available science indicates this won't help.
4th April 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Save Happy Valley activists tramping up Mt Augustus yesterday were appalled to find Solid Energy security guards preventing access to public conservation land. The two security guards continued to break the law by escorting the two activists back down the mountain.
6th March 2007 :: Powelliphanta Augustus Inc
Powelliphanta Augustus Incorporated's appeal to the High Court regarding the habitat of Powelliphanta "Augustus" will be heard today in the Christchurch High Court.
The Environment Court decision under appeal included the following statements:
1st March 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Save Happy Valley Coalition says bring it on!
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is refusing to remove a satirical document from their website after Solid Energy filed an injunction application for defamation.
The State-owned coal company filed the injunction at the High Court in Christchurch against the climate justice group yesterday afternoon after the group posted the satirical Solid Energy Environmental Report at www.savehappyvalley.org.nz/envtreport
26th February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Wellington
Dressed as kiwi, kakariki & geckos, activists from Save Happy Valley Coalition (SHVC) Wellington targeted Conservation Minister Chris Carter as he visited the Department of Conservation (DoC)’s new offices on Manners Street this afternoon.
21st February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
At around 6pm this evening, Save Happy Valley Coalition members were shocked to once again hear an explosion from the ridge line just above them, within 500m of their position.
19th February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
State-owned coal miner Solid Energy has blasted on the Mt Augustus mountain top near Westport, despite protestors maintaining their camp in the area.
16th February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Save Happy Valley Coalition activists have today remained hidden in the thick alpine forest of Mt Augustus near Westport, using their presence to block blasting on the ridgeline of the Stockton opencast coal mine.
12th February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition are determined to maintain their occupation at Mt Augustus despite the Department of Conservation closing the land to help Solid Energy drive Powelliphanta “Augustus” to extinction.
5th February 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Save Happy Valley Coalition members are currently occupying Mt Augustus, halting the mining that is destroying the last remaining habitat of Powelliphanta Augustus. The campaigners are camped inside Solid Energy's blasting exclusion zone, on public Conservation land.
23rd January 2007 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition will celebrate the first birthday of its occupation of the proposed Cypress open-cast coal mine site on January 28th, 2007.
19th December 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition says Solid Energy's claim that a single predated snail disproves careful work by Department of Conservation experts is spurious and unscientific.
16th December 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated
The Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated will vigorously defend Solid Energy's threat to seek costs of many hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Environment Court.
15th December 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated
The Environment Court today ruled that mining the habitat of critically-endangered land snail Powelliphanta "Augustus" is "an action which is noxious, dangerous, offensive or objectionable [51]" and that there is a high risk to the snail's survival in destroying its only known habitat.
9th December 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated
The Save Happy Valley Coalition Inc says its loss in the High Court on Friday is a blow for conservation, but that the battle to save a critically-endangered snail is by no means over.
24th November 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Despite findings that kiwi could be extinct on the mainland within twenty years, state-owned coal miner Solid Energy continues to hunt, kill and possess kiwi in one of their natural strongholds, the Stockton plateau...
3rd November 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Save Happy Valley are holding a beach party outside state-owned coal miner Solid Energy's headquarters, to highlight the new coastline that coal companies may commit the world to by the end of the century.
31st October 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has slammed the Government for not only failing to take action on climate change but misleading the public with claims of 'clean coal.'
13th October 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated
The Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated today applied for interim enforcement orders which, if granted, will immediately protect the habitat of critically-endangered land snail Powelliphanta "Augustus" from government-owned coal company Solid Energy.
10th October 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has discovered several thousand dollars worth of spying equipment on public land, camouflaged near the start of the track into their occupation.
16th September 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Snaily has been forcibly removed from the West Coast Conservancy office in Hokitika. Graham Jury, 22, an ecology student, was chained in a 1.5m snail suit to the Department of Conservation offices.
14th September 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
A giant Powelliphanta "Augustus" snail, with a Save Happy Valley Coalition member inside, locked itself to the Department of Conservation West Coast conservancy office in Sewell St, Hokitika, at 10.20am this morning, blocking the entrance.
8th September 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is appalled by the first death of a captive Powelliphanta "Augustus" snail – living in a fridge because of state-owned coal company Solid Energy's mining operations.
25th August 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Three Save Happy Valley activists will appear in the Christchurch District Court at 10am this morning to defend their choice to take action to save a pristine ecosystem from destruction.
23rd August 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
Members of Save Happy Valley Christchurch called Solid Energy CEO Don Elder to account last night at the annual Hopkins lecture where he had the arrogance to speak on "The Economy and Energy: are both sustainable?"
21st August 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
In using a Chief Executive from one of the most polluting and unsustainable industries to present the annual Hopkins Lecture, the University of Canterbury and IPENZ, the professional engineers' body, are being socially irresponsible, says Save Happy Valley Christchurch.
15th August 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is horrified that Solid Energy is rushing the critically endangered native land snail Powelliphanta "Augustus" out of its wild habitat and into the fridge in Hokitika – with the blessing of the Department of Conservation and in breach of its Wildlife Permit...
28th July 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The occupation of Happy Valley, on the West Coast, turns six months today. The Save Happy Valley Coalition, which has been blocking Solid Energy's attempts to turn the Valley into an open-cast coal mine, has commemorated the anniversary by declaring the entire Waimangaroa Valley [1] an 'Autonomous zone.'
25th July 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition supports the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's call for no more coal or gas-powered electricity stations in New Zealand.
14th July 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition (SHVC) Incorporated is filing proceedings for two court cases, a case in the Environment Court (today) and a judicial review (Monday 17th July), aimed at stopping the Government-sponsored extinction of a species of native land snail.
30th June 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated
Save Happy Valley Coalition Incorporated announced today that it will go to the Environment Court to save the last remaining 5 hectares of habitat of the critically endangered giant land snail Powelliphanta "Augustus" from Solid Energy's Stockton mine.
6th June 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
High school students in Christchurch are marching to demand the protection of an endangered snail species, presently facing extinction if state owned coal company Solid Energy goes ahead with mining its habitat in the coming weeks.
26th May 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Environment Court has granted permission to state-owned coal company Solid Energy to go ahead with its proposed opencast coal mine at Happy Valley, near Westport.
22nd May 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition will today take action across the country to mark International Day for Biodiversity, and launch a petition to demand that Powelliphanta "augustus," an endangered snail species, be protected from extinction.
13th April 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Solid Energy is continuing to mislead the public and the Government, simply to make a few extra dollars of profit at the expense of the extinction of one of New Zealand's ancient taonga, the native land snail Powelliphanta augustus.
12th April 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is appalled at Chris Carter’s decision to allow Solid Energy to move almost the entire population of Powelliphanta “Augustus” snails from their home on Mt Augustus.
14th March 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Twenty-two members of the Green Party, of various ages, walked into Happy Valley for the weekend to show their support to members of the indefinite occupation.
8th March 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Members and supporters of the Save Happy Valley Coalition last night filled in their census forms at the site of Solid Energy's planned coal mine, 25km north-east of Westport on the West Coast.
1st March 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Auckland
At 11:40am on the 1st of March, Save Happy Valley Auckland will give CEO of Solid Energy Don Elder, a surprise “welcome” at the National Power Conference held at the Hyatt, where Don Elder will be delivering a speech about “The Future of Coal”.
28th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Save Happy Valley is calling on the Minister of Conservation not to succumb to any further misleading claims from Solid Energy regarding lost revenue and jobs.
24th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has strengthened its call to the Minister of Conservation to save an endangered carnivorous land snail from extinction. A live snail was recently found during mining operations on a part of the Mt Augustus ridgeline where state owned coal miner Solid Energy was not aware they existed.
21st February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Four members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition appear in the Christchurch District Court this Wednesday. Two face sentencing at 9.15am for their train blockade action against Solid Energy's proposed Cypress Mine.
15th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Three Save Happy Valley Coalition members have been hanging from the roof of Solid Energy's headquarters in Christchurch since 9am today. They are hanging from the 15 metre front facade of the Christchurch offices holding banners...
15th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition members who were protesting on Solid Energy's rooftop this morning have been removed and arrested by about twelve members of the Team Policing Unit.
13th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
In a press release dated Friday 10th (Media Release 10/02/06 "Happy Valley Activists make false claim"), Solid Energy stated that they had not applied for reparations of US$150 000...
10th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Over 100 inflatable kiwi were released in Midland Park at 12noon on Friday, February 10th by members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition (Wellington). The kiwi were then dragged away and moved by "Solid Energy miners".
9th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Three members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition have returned from the indefinite occupation of the planned Cypress mine site on the West Coast in order to defend themselves on charges relating to the coal train blockade in August 2005.
9th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
State Owned Enterprise Solid Energy plans to claim reparations of US$150 000 from three Save Happy Valley activists facing charges in the Christchurch District Court tomorrow at 10.00am.
7th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition have questioned whether Solid Energy's environmental audit has any validity, after the company claimed that it almost had a net positive impact on the environment in the 2004-05 year.
4th February 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The occupation of Happy Valley to protect it from Solid Energy's proposed opencast coal mine has today been going for one week. On Thursday, the Save Happy Valley Coalition celebrated World Wetland Day in the valley...
29th January 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Over 75 people began the indefinite occupation of Happy Valley on Saturday 28th January. Happy Valley, 25km northeast of Westport, is the site of SOE Solid Energy's planned opencast coal mine.
25th January 2006 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
From Saturday 28th January Save Happy Valley Coalition members and supporters will be indefinitely occupying the site of Solid Energy's planned opencast coal mine in Happy Valley near Westport on the West Coast.
22nd December 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is planning an escalation of action to stop the Happy Valley mine in response to today's High Court ruling against a Forest and Bird appeal.
13th December 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has put the board of Solid Energy New Zealand on notice that the group will consider them personally liable for the extinction of a rare carnivorous land snail.
11th December 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Environmentalists clambered 1000 metres up a steep untracked bush ridge near Westport this weekend, to camp and protest the imminent extinction of an absolutely-protected species of carnivorous land snail
27th November 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
The general public may be banned from a section of public conservation land, and environmentalists fear they will be arrested for attempting to save a critically-endangered species from extinction.
21st November 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
A tramping group, comprised of Save Happy Valley campaigners and interested members of the public, were startled when security guards invaded their camp site this weekend. The guards filmed the group against their expressed wishes and demanded personal details for the purposes of issuing 'pre-emptive' trespass notices,
10th October 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Despite a survey showing nationwide concern for kiwis disappearance from the wild, kiwis remain threatened by a proposed Solid Energy coal mine on the Westcoast.
14th August 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
The three activists arrested yesterday for blockading Solid Energy coal trains in Christchurch are unanimous in their commitment to fight Solid Energy's plan to sue them for costs of two hundred thousand dollars.
13th August 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
The Save Happy Valley Campaign has taken the fight against Solid Energy to a new level. In a carefully planned protest, three activists ‘locked on’ to train tracks... preventing Solid Energy’s coal trains reaching Lyttelton port...
13th August 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Christchurch
At least three Solid Energy coal trains have been stopped from reaching Lyttelton Port by protesters who have locked themselves onto railway tracks.
27th May 2005 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
The Environment Court has today permitted Solid Energy to go ahead and develop an open cast mine in Happy Valley, West Coast.
26th May 2005 :: Rising Tide Wellington
Climate change is the biggest threat to the planet and its people and we need action to stop it now. Creating new coal mines is not the way to do this.
26th May 2005 :: Rising Tide Auckland
State-owned coal company, Solid Energy, is now able to proceed with its plans to mine Happy Valley, ultimately resulting in the creation of 13 million tonnes of climate changing carbon dioxide (CO2)
10th December 2004 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
Demonstrators dug up Solid Energy's front lawn today in protest against the planned Happy Valley coal mine. Other protesters, dressed as kiwi, served Solid Energy staff relocation notices.
3rd September 2004 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
A long week is coming to an end for Fiona Gibson and Rob Cadmus. Since last Sunday night, they have been sitting 25 metres up a pine tree overlooking the West Coast, braving the winter weather, and eating nothing.
30th August 2004 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
A hunger strike has been undertaken today by two South Island students, who will confine themselves to a small platform suspended from a tree in Waimangaroa, on the West Coast, in protest of the proposed "Cypress" mine in Happy Valley.
22nd June 2004 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
State-owned Solid Energy has been granted resource consents by the West Coast Regional and Buller District Councils for its proposed opencast coal mine at Happy Valley near Westport, despite strong opposition by local and national environmental groups.
10th June 2004 :: Save Happy Valley Coalition
State-owned Solid Energy's proposed opencast coal mine at Happy Valley near Westport has met solid resistance from local and national environmental groups.
