by frog
Lake Moeraki, Te Wāhipounamu (South West New Zealand World Heritage Area) - Photo Eldan
This week has seen a few mining stories floating around the pond. This Government is intent on digging it’s way out of the economic hole we are in. You would think they would know better. Last Monday the front page of the Dompost was dominated by the Government’s plans to investigate the mineral potential under our World Heritage Area. That evening Catherine spoke at a meeting in Tauranga where she found out that a company had been drilling without a consent. On Tuesday we saw mining in marine mammal sanctuaries in the Dompost, and the Government went on the defensive. We found out that according to our Prime Minister it’s okay to look but not touch.
Wednesday TV3 news covered the disposal of fracking fluids straight into a stream back in the 90s. On Thursday both Green Party questions in the house were on mining. Catherine attempted to get the Government to make good their word and give legislative protection against mining to the World Heritage areas that they are looking at. Steven Joyce declined. Gareth held the Minister to account over the issue of the Government’s sham marine sanctuaries, and phosphate mining. Let’s hope next week the Government stops digging and starts listening to our smart green solutions to get us out of this hole.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Sat, June 30th, 2012
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
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Day by day and again and again, I did the same thing by myself and gradually I did the work more and more smoothly and skillfully.Till now, I can quickly release about more tahn300 times of passage on fifteen websites within three
hours. But the time does not take others things inconsideration.
zhpackagemachinery.com
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Not directly related to NZ but in the same genre as the nightmares we are creating for ourselves here…
http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil/tar-sands-oil-spills-should-scare-the-crap-out-of-you/
There needs to be a Carbon TAX, it needs to be high enough to HURT and it needs to be in place NOW!
This has to stop.
BJ
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Fracking in Southland – update.
http://robertguyton.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/chairman-timms-speaks-forwhom.html
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In New Zealand, if there is a spill of some form, such as an oil pipe leak, are the people responsible legally required to identify the spilled material to the government and those acting for the government (such as companies contracted to clean up the mess)? If not, then perhaps we need a law change. As far as I am concerned, any polluting companies lost the right to keep the composition of any polluting materials secret when they released the materials into the environment. Note that this would include fracking liquids if they were released into the environment.
Trevor.
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