Tim Jones of CANA joined us for a chat about the state of coal in NZ. There’s more than you think and there are more mines in the plans.

Here are some moments from the talk. Use these timestamps to find them:

5:10 What is CANA? A bit about the end of Solid Energy.

8:20 Some of the things that prevent a mining project from going ahead.

9:10 The aims of CANA

9:50 CANA’s aims and its relationship to other organisations.

11:30 Coal as the leader of subset technologies.

12:50 The different types of coal.

13:40 Dairy and Coal.

16:00 Steel and Coal

17:50 Conservation Land and the picture since the 2017 election.

19:30 The Te Kuha coal mine.

21:55 The Nuclear Free Moment.

24:20 Personal action and Collective actin.

25:50 Putting a price on Carbon, recalculations, real costs and finding alternatives.

27:50 A bit more on the Nuclear free moment.

29:50 Understanding the global emergency.

32:10 The disarming calm of climate scientists.

34:00 Exxon and sowing seeds of doubt.

35:40 Mainstream Media presenting climate as two equal discussions

36:50 Younger people getting involved in activism

37:20 Climate Voter initiative

38:20 Generation Zero

38:55 Bipartisan support for a climate commission

40:30 The climate denier fade-away

43:00 Generational differences

44:00 Incandescent light bulbs and Brexit

44:50 National – Farmers doing politics.

46:00 1972 election

46:47 Sense of identity

50:12 Coal and jobs

51:00 NZFirst – regional development

53:00 Zero Carbon Act, manifestos an dgetting two sides talking.

Tying together multiple groups and activities

57:00 Rethinking two revolutions

60:48 The number of cows and our dependence on a single industry. The economics of increasing stocking levels.

1:04:30 ECan. Seven Rivers Walking.

1:06:40 Synthetic milk.

1:10:10 Sefton Derby’s book ‘The ground between’

1:13:30 Expecting guidelines from the government and not getting them. The coal industries’ path to consent.

1:20:40 Visiting the industry

1:22:15 What a resource hearing actually looks like

1:27:10 The current global emergency.

1:31:10 Last questions – what will it take to stop us from burning coal

1:35:25 Changing boilers and the climate change exemption in the RMA

1:38:10 Who and what in government is currently working on this

1:41:05 Lobby groups and getting a mandate