⛏️ ⛰️ Destroying nature for private profit is what Bathurst Resources has planned for Denniston Plateau; an open cast coal mine approx the size of Nelson city that will destroy an entire ecosystem. There is no restoration that will be able to replace what has been lost. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal

WE ARE IN A #CLIMATEEMERGENCY This looks like: 💥 the global loss of species, including insects and birdlife, that is leading to a sixth mass extinction 💥 recent multiple flooding events in Tasman with an estimated cost of $11million 💥 wildfires this month in Turkey 💥 Super Typhoon Ragasa in Asia

⚖️ What do you value more - short term $$$ for a few or a livable planet for our future? 🐌 🌳 🌏 #BathurstResources proposed Fast Track application will see 20 million tonnes of coal taken from #DennistonPlateau, resulting in the destruction of an entire ecological system the size of Nelson city.

🌊 Cold plunge for climate! Thank you Pōneke for your support of Rach & Tāmati and their actions to bring attention to Bathurst Resources plans to turn Denniston Plateau into an open cast coal mine. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau

Young and old, there are heaps of us who want to protect the beautiful wild space of #DennistonPlateau and all the creatures that live there. This 40 million year old ecological system is irreplaceable and has so much more value than the short-term profit of a coal mine. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal

✊ When the Fast Track legislation leaves no room for community consultation we have no choice but to use peaceful #civilresistance to make our concerns heard. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #ProtectDennistonPlateau #BathurstResources #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #nz #Aotearoa

🙏 We have just hit 50% on our fundraiser & we can't thank you enough. These donations are a testament to the strong, caring community that Rach & Tāmati have around them in the fight to preserve our planet 💚 Please donate here chuffed.org/project/rach... / links in bio #climatejustice #nz

🌳 🍃 🐌 Bathurst Resources want to rip apart Denniston Plateau, with help from their buddies at ANZ, turning large areas of stunning wild beauty into an open cast coal mine approx the size of Nelson city. Why would we do that when we could just not??? It really is that simple #StopFossilFuels

📢 🎬 Want to learn to #film actions, rallies & protests to get media gold? Whether it be as a media spokesperson or shooting footage & stills, come along to learn from an experienced #videographer / #photographer 👉 When: Tuesday 23 September. 6pm-8pm 👉 Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St, #Ōtautahi

🐌 🌳 🌏 Like Rach, we all believe in a world where humans can live harmoniously in this one planet that is our home. For that to happen, we need to stop seeing our home as something we can exploit and extract from. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau #SaveDennistonPlateau

🦎 🐌🌳 We will continue to stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves - for the taonga species that live on #DennistonPlateau, for a livable future for our tamariki, and for every living thing that calls this beautiful planet home. #climatecrisis #climatejustice #endcoal #civilresistance #nz

💥 Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far! We rely on small donations to make our actions happen & to support our people after they take action. 👉 You can donate here chuffed.org/project/rach... #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #CivilDisobedience

☠️ Rod Carr, former Chair of the Climate Change Commission, accused fossil fuel promoters of “crimes against humanity”. This is exactly what #BathurstResources is doing with their plans to destroy large areas of the #DennistonPlateau for their own profit. #StopTheFastTrack #ClimateJustice #nz

⛏️ ⛰️ Back in August, Tāmati was one of two climate defenders who spent 3 weeks living in a coal bucket suspended on Stockton coal mine’s aerial ropeway. The bucket, used to transport coal out of New Zealand’s biggest coal mine, was immobilised for 23 days. #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

🌳 ⛰️ The #DennistonPlateau is one of #Aotearoa most spectacular areas of precious wilderness. It is hard to believe that #BathurstResources wants to turn this into an open cast coal mine. @350nz.bsky.social #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #nz #EndCoal

ANZ - say kao to coal 🌳 🍃 🐌 We need to be protecting our precious wild places like #DennistonPlateau seeing them for the taonga that they are, not a resource to be plundered for profit. Get involved or donate chuffed.org/project/1296... #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis

🌪️ 🔥 🌀 This is the reality of the climate crisis - more frequent and more severe emergencies like floods, cyclones and wildfires. It is happening NOW to people we know and care about in Aotearoa and across the world - a loss of homes, livelihoods and lives. #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

What was that you said Shane Jones?! That coal mining on the Denniston Plateau is needed for electrical production “to keep the lights on” in Aotearoa? When in reality it’s headed straight to Lyttelton Port and then off overseas for steel production. His words complete crap and... #ClimateAction

“Climate change costs jobs and homes” Bathurst Resources wants a new mine to extract even more climate-changing coal - and ANZ Bank is helping them do it. Today ISO joined @climateliberation.bsky.social’s blockades of ANZ branches. People & planet before profit - System change not #climatechange!

⛏️💰 Last month we were at ANZ branches across the country to tell them to drop Bathurst Resources as a customer. Bathurst’s Fast Track plans are for an open cast coal mine on Denniston Plateau that will cause the destruction of a 40 million year old ecosystem and hurtle us towards climate disasters.

🤑 💰 It’s a culture of profit over people and of extractivism over care that has got us into this mess of a #climateemergency. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #ProtectDennistonPlateau #BathurstResources #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #CivilResistance #nz #Aotearoa #A22Network

🔥 Poetry as protest - Even The Mud Rebels by Ryn Rutherford. Help us protect Denniston Plateau 👍 share our content 😊 get involved 💚 donate climateliberationaotearoa.org Music: Alon Peretz - King's Requiem #StopTheFastTrack #ProtectDennistonPlateau #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #nz #Aotearoa

🤑☠️ #Colonisation, #extractivism & #exploitation are all part of the same #capitalist forces that put profit before the wellbeing of people and planet. #StopTheFastTrack#StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau #BathurstResources #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #CivilResistance #Aotearoa #freepalestine

📢 We speak out against Bathurst Resource’s proposed open cast coal mine on Denniston Plateau but the creatures who live here cannot. 🌏 We cannot keep allowing the destruction of entire ecological systems for profit. This beautiful planet is home to us all and it deserves to be protected.

⛏️ On Day 8 of Rach and Tāmati’s coal bucket occupation, preventing Bathurst Resources from using the aerial ropeway at Stockton mine, Rach sent an email to Richard Tacon, CEO of Bathurst Resources, the biggest coal company in Aotearoa. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau

😟 Worried about what the climate crisis might mean for you and generations to come? Now is the time to step into climate action!! Ever wondered what it would be like to be a part of a group of like-minded, nature loving people of all ages? #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

The sandstone pavement ecosystem of Denniston Plateau does not exist anywhere else in the world - a lost world of slow growing dwarf trees and oversized giant insects like wetas and giant land snails. 🌳 🍃 🐌This is what we have to lose. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

💪😊 Tāmati, Rach and Coalin were tough as to handle 23 days in a coal bucket through the West Coast mid winter. They did so understanding both how tough it would be and the consequences of their actions. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau #SaveDennistonPlateau

Help us keep the pressure on Bathurst Resources. ✋🏻🛑⛔️ It is completely unacceptable to be expanding coal mines in 2025. We are in a climate emergency and the fossil fuel industry is NOT the solution. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau

Yesterday was the final morning in bucket land, 83m high on Stockton Mines’ aerial ropeway! 🍀 When you stand for nature, #nature stands with you. The team expected a storm on their last night in the coal bucket and it never came! We too feel that positive change for our planet is on its way! #nz

🌍 This is about our survival 🌏 There are better ways to make a living than the dying coal industry scorching our planet. We believe in a just transition for all of us. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau #SaveDennistonPlateau

🌳 🍃 Rach was ready to gracefully abseil 83 meters down to the forest floor yesterday! This has absolutely been a worthwhile adventure. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #ProtectDennistonPlateau #BathurstResources #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #CivilDisobedience #CivilResistance #nz #Aotearoa

🥳The final night in bucket land calls for celebration!! On Monday night Tāmati and Rach shared their mixed feelings about leaving the bucket. It has become a home nest with special nooks and crannies and new ways of daily life. Ultimately, the achievement is overwhelming.

Love what we’re doing? Here are ways you can help! 🧡Join a local climate action group @350.org @a22network.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @climatedefiance.bsky.social @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social @risingtideaus.bsky.social #climatecrisis #climatejustice #nz

🗣️ #BathurstResources, we will oppose your #undemocratic, #ecocidal, monster #coalmine at every step. From one coal bucket occupation to the next. In nationwide action from the streets of #Ōtepoti to #TāmakiMakaurau we protested #ANZ who supports you by providing banking services. #climatecrisis

🔥 Breaking news 🔥 Rach & Tāmati have chosen to leave the coal bucket after an incredible 23 days. For over 3 wks they occupied a bucket on the Stockton Mine aerial ropeway, preventing use of the aerial ropeway to transport coal out of #BathurstResources Stockton mine. @a22network.bsky.social

Day 22 in the beautiful (& damp) #DennistonPlateau. 🐌 🌳 🌏 That’s 22 days that Tāmati & Rach have been living in a coal bucket to protect and save this precious wild place - all the creatures & plant communities that make up this place, many of which can be found nowhere else in the world. #nz

A couple of weeks ago Rach wrote an email to Richard Tacon, CEO of #BathurstResources, the biggest coal company in #Aotearoa 🤑 💰 But…. he didn’t respond. Expect he’s a bit busy ensuring Bathurst’s 90% foreign shareholders make as much money as they can. #ProtectDennistonPlateau #ClimateCrisis #nz

A message to Richard Tacon, CEO of Bathurst Resources, the biggest coal company in Aotearoa. 🐌 🌳 ⛰️ This land is too precious to destroy. Opening new coal mines now is nothing short of reckless. We will not stand by. We will oppose you at every step. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

It’s easy to throw around childish insults - much harder to show true leadership. 🌡️ 🌀 🔥 And we really do need good leadership in the face of the devastating impact of climate disasters, including wildfires in #Ōtautahi, floods in #Tasman, #CycloneGabrielle & bigger #climatedisasters to come. #nz

🌡️ 🌀 🔥 We know climate disruption is real and that business as usual is insanity. Our lack of climate action is costing us so much in terms of lives, livelihoods and our economy. At the moment the cost of climate related disasters globally is $USD 38 trillion. #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

🙌 It’s now over 20 days that Tāmati & Rach have been living in #bucketland We too have a good feeling that change is going to come - we know the power that comes from people working together in peaceful #civilresistance @a22network.bsky.social #StopTheFastTrack #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis

🌞 Friday was day 19 for Tāmati & Rach. The alarms were back (boo) & the sun was out on the beautiful #DennistonPlateau (yay) They have spent the last 20 days in a coal bucket, preventing use of the aerial ropeway to transport coal out of #BathurstResources’ Stockton mine @a22network.bsky.social

💚 A message for the grandparents out there 💚 If you’re not sure about this whole #climatecrisis business, if you think that #climatechange probably won’t be that bad or is unlikely to impact your immediate family, please think again. #climatejustice #protectdennistonplateau #civilresistance #nz

The Fast Track Legislation takes away our democratic rights to have a say on the environment, planet and our future. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels #DennistonPlateau #SaveDennistonPlateau

📢 A couple of days ago #BathurstResources gave up on their attempts to intimidate with bird scarers & alarms and Rach & Tāmati again got to hear the wildlife on the #DennistonPlateau. 🐌 🌳 ⛰️ This is just a small part of the wonder of the wild space that is Denniston Plateau. #climatecrisis #nz

Sneak peek for what’s in store on Sat night #Ōtautahi Join us for an evening of frontline resistance, film + kōrero 📅 Sat 16 Aug, 6.30-8.30pm 📍 74 Hawdon St, Sydenham, Ōtautahi. Snacks provided! Koha appreciated www.facebook.com/share/19f9BU... #ClimateActivism #ClimateCrisis #film #NZ #Aotearoa

🔥 🥕 Day 18 of bucket life bring you….the joys of a fresh(ish) carrot. Rach and Tāmati have been occupying a coal bucket for an incredible 18 days, preventing #BathurstResources from using their aerial ropeway to get coal out of Stockton mine. @a22network.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis

❤️‍🔥 Today is day 16 in a coal bucket from our amazing #climatedefenders Rach and Tāmati Yesterday they spent looking after their bodies & minds - self care so they can keep putting pressure on #BathurstResources planned open cast coal mine on #DennistonPlateau. @a22network.bsky.social

🙌 Hundreds of everyday people, across all generations, from #TāmakiMakaurau, #Rotorua, #Taranaki, #Manawatū, #Pōneke, #Whakatū, #Waihopai, #Ōtautahi & #Ōtepoti, came together on Friday to tell #ANZ to drop #BathurstResources as a customer #climatecrisis #climatejustice #dennistonplateau