While you are busy with Christmas, the Government has abused the power of Urgency to ram through controversial legislation without the usual due process and scrutiny, one power has been the outargues Fast Track powers to bypass environmental and community concerns when it comes to extraction capitalism.
Fast-track amendment passes under urgency, backtracks on controversial proposals
The government has passed an amendment to the fast-track regime under urgency overnight, backtracking on several of the more controversial proposals in the process.
We are already seeing the legacy of allowing mining without environmental protections come back to bite us…
Govt’s $256m mine clean up significantly higher than estimate
The Government will have to fork out $256 million to clean up the Stockton coal mine on the West Coast, a figure significantly higher than previous estimates.
Treasury has prepared a business case for the long-term management of acid mine drainage (AMD) in preparation for when BT Mining leaves the site about 35km north of Westport.
…and we are seeing the impact of Fast Track already undermining the present…
Offshore wind firm exits NZ as seabed mine seeks consent
…the Fast Track powers are a sop for polluters to push ahead with damaging environmental projects regardless of the impact on local communities.
It shouldn’t be getting rammed through Parliament while an exhausted citizenship are too beaten down to respond.
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Well come down to the collaborator coast and do a bit on the collusion going on between the councils, mines and mineral sand scabs around here. Let’s have a look at whose getting all the west coast development and resilient Westport millions and whose really behind the wholesale destruction of a truly beautiful place.
Give Jones a wheel barrow and a shovel so he can shovel this shit instead of just talking shit all year long .