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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-903/
- Published: 2024-02-07T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-07T21:11:29.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

The man who committed his own climate treason by cutting down trees on One Tree Hill goes to court…

> Iwi leader Mike Smith has won the right to sue seven big polluters for their role in causing climate change, in a Supreme Court ruling delivered this morning.  
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> The Supreme Court reinstated Smith’s case, after it was earlier thrown out by the Court of Appeal on the basis there was no reasonable basis for argument.  
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> The climate activist, of Ngapuhi and Ngati Kahu, says the group including Fonterra, Z Energy and Genesis Energy (which together make around a third of New Zealand’s emissions) have a legal duty to him and others in communities who are being damaged by planet-heating gases.  
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> He wants them to either stop polluting, or start bringing emissions down quickly.  
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> An important feature of the case is the role of tikanga Maori, and how it determines Smith’s relationship to coastal land and waters which are being flooded and damaged.  
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> The Supreme Court noted it was not ruling on whether the case had a good chance of succeeding, only that “Mr Smith now gets his day in court”.  
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> RNZ

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