by frog
The National Government are poised to do the unthinkable — open up our most treasured places, our national parks and reserves — to mining. Can they be serious? Didn’t we have this fight 100 years ago? Do New Zealanders really believe that no place is sacred if there’s a goldmine or a coalmine sitting underneath it? I talked to a number of Green MPs to find out why they treasure our last remaining wild spaces.
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Published in Audioblog | Environment & Resource Management | THE GAME by frog on Tue, November 10th, 2009
Tags: Audioblog, mining, national park, podcast, sacred places, zealand
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
yah. Provide your reasons please. One would think...
Note: National have recently announced that they are pushing back the decision on mining our national parks until February 2010. At that time there will be a six-week public consultation period which you can engage with. Send an e-mail to conservation@greens.org.nz if you’d like to be kept up to date with developments.
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hi greenfly,
recently overheard was first dinosaur footprints in New Zealand.. and my immediate thought was of that hunched and bitter figure of yourn.. else the headline writer had gotten it wrong and missed out on this particular creature..
still, there’s room enough for two… heh
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Just how big IS Rodney’s hole? Oh dear. I fear.
The thread may never recover from this question
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Tomfarmer – yes, it was a Perkasaurus that left it’s trotter-print in the now petrified mud-stone. That doomed creature was initially called an Entitledasaurus and became extinct when it’s brain became too calcified to control its behaviour. Sad, but true.
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