Questions raised over NZ–US Rare Earth Minerals talks & Shane Jones’ role
US, New Zealand commit to exploring opportunities, cooperation on critical minerals
New Zealand and the United States have committed to “explore further opportunities” to expand cooperation on critical minerals, according to a statement released by both governments.
It comes after the Prime Minister dismissed reporting of potential talks between the two nations about the supply of minerals to the US as “speculative and hypothetical” on Monday.
“I think the commentary, frankly, is probably a bit frothy and a bit ahead of itself,” Luxon said on Morning Report, while the opposition slammed the “secret” talks.
Top diplomats from both countries met in Washington on Tuesday for the New Zealand-United States Strategic Dialogue.
RNZ
Look.
This is Shane Jones boasting to the fishing Industry that he would amputate Māori fishing rights…
Minister calls Judge ‘Communist’ in meeting with seafood lobby over Māori rights
Stuff
…this is Shane Jones making climate change and mining a culture war issue…
…this is Shane Jones rigging the game for his donors interests…
Shane Jones shut down NZ involvement in ‘road map’ away from fossil fuels
RNZ
…he rewrote the pollution rules and gave oil and gas a $200million subsidy FFS!
So, why the living Christ, would we trust Shane anywhere near negotiating rare earth minerals with Donald Trump?
It’s like to two Mobsters cutting a deal, most South American Drug Cartels have more ethics than Trump and Matua Shane.
What has Shane done in 2 years that would lead you to trust him? He has been the one pushing rare earth minerals and now he has the ear of Trump???
We should not be getting sucked into this.
Mining has a 7x job return (i.e. for every miner you create 6 additional jobs on top of that miner), so mining is extremely good for job growth. The notion that New Zealand can be some sort of “service economy” is laughable given our isolation. We need to play to our strengths, and that has to include growing both mining and agriculture.
agreed, but do you trust any US 9in particular Trump) involvement?
Not one person can trust Jones, although Bob the first was happy for Jones to use taxpayer money to fuel his porn addiction. Like for like I suppose.