Huntly is the biggest coal burning power station in New Zealand. A relic of the fossil fuel generation, it represents our long dependence on dirty energy for power, and should be a thing of the past. In 2015, this almost became reality, when owners Genesis announced the station would be shut by 2018. They have now reneged on this decision, vowing to keep the place going until 2022.Coal fuels climate change and poisons our air. It’s time to get rid of it.
New Zealand can and should be generating all our power from renewable sources. Shutting Huntly shows we take our Paris Climate Targets seriously.
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Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team scale the 150-metre high smoke stack at the Huntly coal-fired power station and start unfurling a banner that reads: "Climate killer". Due to safety concerns they remove the banner before it is fully deployed. However, another group of activists successfully lay a 45-metre banner on the coal conveyor, which reads "Climate change starts here" with an arrow pointing to the coal station. © Greenpeace / Dean Treml
Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team scale the 150-metre high smoke stack at the Huntly coal-fired power station and start unfurling a banner that reads: "Climate killer". Due to safety concerns they remove the banner before it is fully deployed. However, another group of activists successfully lay a 45-metre banner on the coal conveyor, which reads "Climate change starts here" with an arrow pointing to the coal station. © Greenpeace / Dean Treml
Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team scale the 150-metre high smoke stack at the Huntly coal-fired power station and start unfurling a banner that reads: "Climate killer". Due to safety concerns they remove the banner before it is fully deployed. However, another group of activists successfully lay a 45-metre banner on the coal conveyor, which reads "Climate change starts here" with an arrow pointing to the coal station. Greenpeace will launch a report called "New Zealand Energy Revolution: How to prevent climate chaos" today, which is the first extensive examination of how New Zealand can restructure its energy system to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change. © Greenpeace
Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team scale the 150-metre high smoke stack at the Huntly coal-fired power station and start unfurling a banner that reads: "Climate killer". Due to safety concerns they remove the banner before it is fully deployed. However, another group of activists successfully lay a 45-metre banner on the coal conveyor, which reads "Climate change starts here" with an arrow pointing to the coal station. Greenpeace will launch a report called "New Zealand Energy Revolution: How to prevent climate chaos" today, which is the first extensive examination of how New Zealand can restructure its energy system to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change. © Greenpeace