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Happy Valley is a beautiful area of native bush, fragile wetlands and a thriving ecosystem of native birds and animals located on the West Coast of New Zealand, just North East of Westport. It is home to many threatened species including the Great Spotted Kiwi and the large native Patrickensis land snail.... and it is under attack from state-owned enterprise Solid Energy!

Solid Energy has been pushing very aggressively to destroy Happy Valley with an open-cast coal mine and have just recently cleared the neccessary legal hurdles.

A mine in Happy Valley would see the local environment utterly obliterated with mining depths of up to 96m proposed destroying habitats and causing a loss of biodiversity. In turn a much wider area will be seriously affected by polluted rivers and acid mine drainage.

The coal is planned to be exported primarily to be burnt in steel production. The burning of coal releases large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere further adding to climate change or global warming. Climate change is real and happening now and will cause extreme conditions such as drought and flooding, seriously affecting much of the world's population.

The Save Happy Valley Coalition believe this mine must be stopped! The Save Happy Valley Coalition are waging a campaign against Solid Energy to protect Happy Valley and to try to slow climate change.