frogblog » Audioblog http://blog.greens.org.nz hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:50:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Podcast: Mining our Sacred Places http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/10/podcast-mining-our-sacred-places/ http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/10/podcast-mining-our-sacred-places/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:28:45 +0000 frog http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7535 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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