Mining
New Mining Coming To The Coast?
New Mining Coming To The Coast?
#Mining #Coming #Coast
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Over 600 metres about sea level just north of Westport, the Denniston Plateau is a wild, windswept stretch of land renowned for its breathtaking views, rare carpet canopy of herb fields, wetlands and low-lying flora and extraordinary wildlife – huge forest weta, giant flatworms, spotted kiwi,…
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Do it. Stop telling the coasties what to do
I am a NZ First voter. Torn really. Yes mining is needed but I actually don't like the idea of ruining nature. Is there a way around mining? Could we mine another part of NZ?
Only behalf of us locals on the coast who are actually locals. If you don't live here or benefit us in anyway. Please don't put your two cents in and tell us how we should be living and working
Government needs to go heavier on the huge international mining companies, get them funding local infrastructure to pay for the damage their trucks will cause, whether that's new roads and bridges or teaming up with KiwiRail to get new branchlines built. We also need to be taking bigger royalties from them. 9 million a year from a coking coal mine is pissing in the wind. Said coal is worth over 400 NZD a tonne, and they're paying about $30/t to rail it to Lyttelton.
Mining could be hugely lucrative for New Zealand, but previous governments either let the money slip through their fingers on its way overseas (National) or prohibit it outright (Labour). Neither solution is correct. The west coast should have the best schools, roads, railways, bridges, and buildings in the country. But decades of mismanagement have left it a backwater.
If we go without the mining, there isn't enough freight traffic to keep the Midland Line open between Christchurch and Greymouth, only 3 trains a day through summer, and 1-2 in winter depending on the day.
I have just spent a week in Brisbane at a business conference.
Australia is busy,profitable,vibrant and a fun place to be.
They have no issues digging money out of the ground.
The recalcitrant attitude of successive govts here in NZ has turned us all into slaves to Australian banks.
I would welcome mining anywhere in NZ,but with a control on which company/companies are involved.
Mining is money for the good of all NZers.
We need the mining it brings jobs and reduces unemployment which also reduces crime. Helps small businesses can helps build more. We need to put money back it to the communities and country to repair the serious damage done to our country by our previous government.
Whatever damage gets done to the environment can be put back to what it was and better than before. Everything comes from mining solar panels lithium for electric cars and phones paints and make up. Iron for your roofs if we don’t have mining New Zealand will fall in to a 3rd world country no one wants that
Thieves
Incredibly shortsighted to mine the West Coast again. Can’t get work? Move out if need be, we all make compromises in life.
Children in poverty. Health system in collapse. Mass exodus of talent. A nation in debt and crisis. But you people are fanatics about Gaia. Wake up.
Nz owes so much money to overseas interests,mainly China, so yes open season had been approved
Great Journalism thank you!!!
So it seems like there were two key points there that the industry could not address, and make the whole thing fall over in my opinion. The benefits are short term and the majority of the profits are heading off shore, while the environmental impacts are left for the NZ public to deal with.. Are there statistics on how many of the jobs are filled by non locals?
Fantastic news for the west coast economy. These jobs are high wage jobs. I always find it funny how all these green hippies talk about being green and use solar panels and such but then don't want minerals to be mined. Makes no sense. You can't have a green future without mining.
If the profits go off shore and NZ only gets a few seedlings as our profit…..Yeah Nah….If the profits are reinvested in New Zealand…yeah sure.
Feminist poison is real 🙄 they want everything and contribute nothing
So much for NZ advocating for clean green energy options in the hope of slowing climate change etc when we then turn around and rip up our land to supply a fossil fuel that will only contribute to further undesirable emissions. Hypocrisy at its best NZ govt. What have you got lined up for sale and destruction to foreign magnates next ?
Mineral sands are old beach, river or dune sands that contain concentrations of the important minerals, rutile, ilmenite, zircon and monazite and also contain radioactive thorium and uranium. You need to be very careful that mineral sand tailings do not contain concentrate harmful substances
I’d feel conflicted to post negatively from a phone that’s been created from far, far worse practices.
Beautifully produced and excellent balance and framing of arguments, all the best.
I feel sad for NZ. Our choices seem to be pretty slim.
So, let me get this straight. Foreign billionaires literally rip our pristine landscape apart while paying a meagre 200 workers as little as they can? How will this benefit all New Zealanders as the owners of that land? I bet a healthy tax break is on offer as well. Fuck the US and their Australian lapdog. Leave it in the ground.
This lady is away with the fairies, there’s such a thing as mine rehabilitation. Go back to your hippie life and stop ruining everyone else’s.
Get a life!
We all need a job!
New Zealand can show the way to have both
nature and industry!
People who live far away in their politically correct and saleried positions need to wake up to the fact you have your wealth because of people like us and use of OUR ( the countries) resources
Compromise is the only way forward!
We can't rely on markets and tech solely!
We are a small player on the world stage!
We need to spread our currency streams widely!
So this can only be achieved by using our natural resources wisely
Gold and minerals(no so much coal) insulate an economy as a bedrock
We need to wake up as a nation and decide what's best for us!
Wealth and employment!
Or blowing on whims of a few at the expense of the prosperity of the rest!
If the demand is there for coal, why hasn’t that first mine started up again? I live in Dunedin and it’s frustrating to see the lack of industry on the South Island, and I’d personally be okay with mining if the people that live there actually benefit from it, but it sounds like these guys are trying to pull a fast one.
Now go look on Google earth . The Mines are not as large as she states . Infact the urban develop throughout nz does more damage and will never be returned to nature . And note she says she suspects way too much . That means she doesn't know what she is stating as fact .
The truth – the money goes offshore. NZ does the scrub work and clean up work. The trucks destroy the roads and a few people make some money. Incredibly short sighted.
Heath Milne's doublespeak is disgusting. 'We don't want to loosen regulation, we want to remove bureaucracy.' Sorry, but the fast-track bill DOES remove regulation and oversight. One suspiciously connected minister going to secret undeclared meetings can make a carte-blanche decision without due process. Mining affects everything and everyone, it is not the sort of decision to be made in secret smoky rooms.
And it is all the more offensive that much of it is public land, the profits of which will be sold off to foreign corporations. If Heath Milne truly were serious about wanting "more of what's generated stay on the West Coast" then he would opposed letting these offshore companies in to continue looting our natural landscape.
Looking forward to protesting if this goes ahead.
What wonderful reporting. If only our national media could perform in such an impartial way………