NZ public expects consultation on mining - Greens

04 Dec 2011 03:29p.m.

eddie wrote:

drill, it mine it and sell it!...go national!!, always have my vote, and f*ck the greens and no use labour!

01 Dec 2011 08:54a.m.

Siena wrote:

Kiaora. I have been reading the submission given by New Zealand 'FOR THE RIO+20 PROCESS'on their "Reform of inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies" Their opening statement begins with, "A key impediment to the successful transition towards a green economy is the existence of perverse incentives that continue to encourage practices harmful to the environment and which inhibit new sources of economic growth. "New Zealand acknowledges the leadership shown by G20 and APEC economies.New Zealand believes that Rio+20 should join these other international efforts to reform inefficient fossil fuel subsidies over the medium term, while mitigating adverse impacts on vulnerable groups." "impacts on vulnerable groups." The definition of this is called Lets break our word and bugger the "vulnerable groups" Their opinions on 'Public Conservation Land' mean 'Jack Frost!'

01 Dec 2011 07:41a.m.

william wrote:

Greens policy - jobs, kids, clean rivers. Denniston Coal will provide the jobs. The jobs provide healthy kids who can swim in the clean rivers. Lets have some common sense. Denniston will rise again and help NZ.

01 Dec 2011 06:36a.m.

Homer wrote:

And here we go, Nat's back in and already on the warpath. This is only the start, kiwi's have voted them in and soon enough they will regret it.

30 Nov 2011 10:30p.m.

Hamish wrote:

The Nats are habitual, proven liars, what did anyone expect? They have been caught lying heaps of times, this is just the latest puplic lie.

To add injury to insult they get foriegners in to do it, shows how small minded they are, more cash straight overseas.

30 Nov 2011 09:44p.m.

CantAddUp wrote:

The Greens can't add up a simple sum, Asset sales and Strip mining Vote National, Stop that, Vote Labour, A Green vote is useless waste of time. Now enjoy the strip mining you voted for it!.

30 Nov 2011 09:27p.m.

Bryan wrote:

Denniston was a cold bleak windswept plateau back in the day, no vegetation and just hardship. The only reason anything is growing up there now is because they burnt the town down when they left. It is historic but the weather is generally appalling and no Kiwis are not there. Coal is.

30 Nov 2011 09:11p.m.

James J.Read wrote:

No Mining, No Pollution, No jobs. Yes this should be the message that The Greens preach on the West Coast.They succeeded in closing down the timber mills and saved the forest, now the battle is on to save Deniston Plateau.

30 Nov 2011 08:49p.m.

JW wrote:

Eco systems do recover from mining, take a wander through the old goldfields from the 1800's, other than the odd pile of lichen covered stones, you would be hard pressed to realise wide spread mining occurred and they had no environmental constraints or rehabilitation. With the re-vegetation clauses and resource constraints imposed upon mining companies these days, within a few short years, you would be hard pressed to even know a person had stepped foot on the site, little own mined there.

30 Nov 2011 08:15p.m.

Juliana wrote:

Environment trumps economy. Eco systems do not recover from mining. Money and resources are better utilised by employment apprenticeships in the building and construction industries not destruction ones. NZ cannot afford any furtehr loss or degradation of our few left conservation estates and pristine native bush - we have too few of our native species left. Extinction is not reversible.