Shareholders arriving at Fonterra’s AGM this morning were shown the way by a trail of signs set up by Auckland Coal Action. Despite the cooperative’s byline of ‘sustainable dairying’, Fonterra has now overtaken the Huntly power station as the second largest coal user in the country and is planning on opening two huge coal boilers at Studholme in Canterbury. (Submissions close on Friday.)
ACA put up a sign trail just outside Fonterra’s private road, after having first put it up on their private road and being sent off by a security guard. However, the second spot was just as good – traffic had to pass slowly, having just crossed the railway line and needing to than make a sharp right turn.
The five signs said:
- Biggest threat to NZ farming is climate change
- New coal boilers at Studholme = 40 more years of coal
- Waste wood boilers – proven technology
- Will Fonterra gamble, with shareholders’ funds, on no carbon charge in next 40 years?
- Fonterra decides: for sustainability, or climate destruction?
The Fonterra AGM was held at their dairy factory at Waitoa on the southern Hauraki Plains, near Matamata.
Auckland Climate Action 
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