Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 1:49 pm
The news today that Bathurst Resources is
to close its Canterbury Coal mine at Coalgate is a wakeup
call for Fonterra, whose Darfield plant down the road runs
two coal boilers, says Coal Action Network Aotearoa
(CANA).
This could spell the end of cheap coal for
Fonterra’s Canterbury operations, and should give the
company an opportunity to make the switch away from coal,
the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel,” said Cindy Baxter, a
CANA spokesperson.
Fonterra’s Darfield dairy factory
has two large, relatively new coal boilers, totalling 75MW,
and burns around 90,000 tonnes of coal a year to dry milk