Friday, October 21, 2011

You beauties!



















"A beauty store assistant has got down and dirty in The Plaza to protest against coalmining in New Zealand.
Lush Cosmetics worker Rorie O'Brien went neck-deep in 50 kilograms of coal in the Palmerston North shopping mall yesterday as part of the Coal Action Network Aotearoa's "Keep the Coal in the Hole" campaign"

Goodness! Opposition to coalmining from a very unexpected quarter! Beauty shop assistants across the country, putting their groomed selves on the line, or rather under a heap of dirty coal, to gain attention for the cause. That's good marketing, right there!
The Manawatu Standard has the story here and the Otago Daily Times covered their local version of the 'girl in the coal' here.
*hat-tip Tane
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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM

    Shows how beauty shop assistants are manipulated by unscrupulous greenies.

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  2. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    Can't be done, Anonymous - God knows I've tried!

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  3. fredinthegrassOctober 21, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    What an admission, Rg, and sorry about the Anon - missed a button again!

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  4. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    Wood Charcoal..no coal in sight

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  5. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM

    not to mention

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6lFN9YHW4

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  6. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    Good spotting, Anonymous. I guess they'd be accused of hypocrisy, had they touched real coal and 'used' it for anything.
    Charcoal could be regarded as the environmentally-friendly tool of the anti-coal protester!

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  7. nickOctober 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM

    You'd be please to know Anon that the charcoal from the Dunedin store is going towards some great projects post-campaign :) Coal on the other hand, if it had been used, would have been a dirty burden on the soap makers and nothing more!

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  8. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    Not some you burned yourself, Nick?

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  9. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    Ground up coal is being used (very successfully) as fertiliser (as is unmodified) in several locations around NZ. It is after all highly compressed compost..

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  10. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    I believe so, Anonymous. I'm interested to learn about some of the supplementary minerals/elemnts that coal has in it and their effect on soils, especially where there are repeated applications. Do you know about those?
    I'm not sure that I agree that coal is compressed compost, though it would be funny to tell a woman wearing diamonds that they were merely 'compressed compost'.

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  11. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    Diamonds are purified compressed compost. Coal quite a few steps (dirtier?) removed from that! It's the dirty bits that give it the goodness!!

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  12. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    You can't call diamond 'compressed compost' Anonymous, nor can you call coal that. It's undergone too many physical changes to retain the 'compost' link.
    Take some compost,compress it - is it coal? Nope, it's compressed compost. I take your point though and it's an interesting development and I like to learn more.

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  13. Shane PleasanceOctober 21, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    I prefer the use of well known celebrities to promote the cause for AGW.

    More reassuring.

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  14. robertguytonOctober 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    You see John Key under a pile of coal?

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  15. Shane PleasanceOctober 21, 2011 at 10:00 PM

    Yep. A big pile.

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  16. AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    Choice stuff. Surely NZs economic future will be powered by clean energy http://www.nzcleanenergycentre.co.nz/ not dirty lignite and coal.

    I remember when Gerry Brownlee said coal was sexy. It seems not is is the opposition to coal that is sexy.

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