The financial year for Taranaki District Health Board has closed with one of its worst deficits in recent history. In an emailed statement to Stuff reporter Stephanie Ockhuysen, Taranaki District Health Board Chief financial officer George Thomas said the deficit was down to an increase in staff wages, higher than expected ED presentations, treatment of... Continue Reading →
“The business operations happening at Kapuni, in South Taranaki, can best be described as a climate crime scene” says Emily Bailey, a member of Climate Justice Taranaki. Climate protectors disrupted activities at drilling company Todd Energy, chemical fertiliser manufacturer Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Fonterra in southern Taranaki today to make it clear that the time for... Continue Reading →
Members and supporters of Climate Justice Taranaki will be protesting in and around Kapuni tomorrow where the connection between oil and gas drilling and the intensification of dairy farming are obvious. The earth protectors aim to disrupt business as usual at these three factories for two reasons: 1. to object to the new oil and... Continue Reading →
