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Pike River Coal Mine gets a Gold Star from DoC

Monday September 15th, 2008. 5:34 pm by frog

Yeah, great work with the ducks and trees; now about all those carbon emissions… But the climate is not DoC’s responsibility of course, it’s just the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff for the 25% of biodiversity the IPCC estimates may go extinct by the end of the century…

At least the Greens made sure that Pike has to pay for its local methane emissions under the ETS from 2010 (the coal is exported so won’t be liable), and got $4m for DoC research into the impacts of climate change on our conservation land.

If the Greens were Government, we would stop permitting new coal mines and allow the existing ones, such as Pike, to run their course. More importantly, we would re-energise DoC from being the Department of Gold Stars and turn it into an agency that can truly protect what little is left of our natural inheritance. Details of what we would do can be found here.

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Posted in Environment & Resource Management | by frog | Mon, September 15th, 2008 |

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