NZ First New Mining Policy Is Outdated Vandalism – Coromandel Watchdog
NZ First says mining will enrich the regions. But with just 2% royalties and profits heading offshore, this looks less like development — and more like vandalism.
Catherine Delahunty
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Watchdog supports new Green policy on fast track mining consents – Catherine Delahunty
“Greens Fast Track Mining Policy is Common Sense Leadership” The environment group Coromandel Watchdog Hauraki is supportive of the mining…
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Government Statements On Mining DOC Land A Betrayal – Catherine Delahunty
The statements by the Minister of Conservation Hon Kiri Allan last Saturday are a disturbing betrayal of the Government promise…
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Drinking river water – Tourism NZ puts visitors at risk
The current Minister of Tourism is Paula Bennett. The same Minister who once advocated contraception for beneficiaries as some kind of ‘cure’ for sole-parenting. A major aspect of Tourism NZ’s advertising campaign involves the “100% Pure” theme – a claim largely ridiculed and dismissed by most New Zealanders as a bad-taste joke;
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MUST READ: TDB Investigation into what is happening in our water
On 7 September, 2008, John Key said that “…we should always measure a Government’s environmental rhetoric against its environmental record.”
Indeed we should.
