The Carbon Capture Report (keeping tabs)

This profile page summarizes all known activity of the location Riverton, New Zealand (General), New Zealand related to Coal. This location may have appeared in articles supporting this topic, against it, or in a separate context: this biographical entry simply demarks this location as appearing in content suggesting contextual association with Coal. 

If you comment on coal through media of any sort, you appear on the "Carbon Capture Report", with gradings of all sorts. Here's Riverton's page, on which my modest blogging makes a wee splash. There are pretty graphics too. It's possible that this post will be added to the statistics kept by the compilers of the Carbon Capture Report, thus changing the graphic I've chosen, which may change my ratings one way or the other.

Kiwi of the Year

What does New Zealander of the Year Sir Paul Callaghan, have to say about the country that bestowed the honourific upon him?
Amongst other things, he says New Zealand had reached its limit on how it can exploit its natural resources.
"Mining our national parks may get us a few billion [dollars] but it's paltry in comparison to the damage to the brand it will do."

Inferno

So now we have a coal mine in a national park, burning furiously.

Monster trucks (on our roads)

Around the end of May 2010,  New Zealand's first High Productivity Motor Vehicle (HPMV)

permits were issued by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to two trucks owned by state-owned coal miner Solid Energy.

The permits allow the trucks to carry up to 50 tonne loads along the 60km route between New Vale Mine and *a customer in Edendale, Southland.

HPMV permits which came into effect on May 1, allow existing weight and dimensions rules for trucks to be amended to allow a new class of vehicle, called high productivity motor vehicles, to operate under a special H permit on specified routes, displaying H plates at all times.

We'll at least we'll know what hit us, or at least what it is that's chewing up our roads!

* Fonterra, in case you didn't catch it as it flew by.