In the last Brenty’s Two Cents, I suggested that the fast track list information then available obscured as much as it revealed. We didn’t know how “the list” would track into a future New Zealand.
Talk about a shopping list of winners and losers! This is an excellent piece of analysis, thanks. When I asked MfE what the process was to whittle the application list from 392 to 149 there were crickets. Just a bunch of ministers behind closed doors, picking their faves at random. And then to hear that the FTAG spent less than 3 hours deciding on the mining applications makes me weep. As a member of the small community of Tarras, the David and Goliath battle of us versus Santana Minerals AKA FTA107 is just beginning.
Very happy I discovered your blog. Thanks for this detailed analysis. NZ needs a lot more of these backgrounders to get more people to understand the dynamics at play in policy and law making...
This is an incredible summary of this atrocious bill, thank you so much for digging through it! We sighed a big sigh of relief down here in Golden Bay when the Sam’s Creek gold mine which would have threatened the world’s clearest springs (Te Waikoropupū) did not end up on this list. But maybe it’s just a matter of time, depending how long Shane Jones gets to be in his role… as a former marine ecologist with a PhD on the environmental impacts of mining, the Taranaki seabed mining frightens the living crap out of me. It will be an utter ecological disaster, and lead to more than one extinction seeing we have so little knowledge of what species & ecosystems exist down there. I hope that the public opposition to ramming this atrocity through may cost this coalition the next election, and that it still can be stopped.
great summary Allan. Disjointed in deed. Port strategy seems to be a dog's breakfast. I feel you are being generous with the term "think" in think disjointed! Is there any mention in the legislation around compliance and increased scrutiny to hold applications accountable to their approvals?
Good stuff Allan. Thanks for your hard work digging into and exposing the fast track bill’s lack of any coherent strategic foundation. Pork barrel politics at its worst.
Well done. A long read. Thanks for categorising the pretend projects assessment study as a political pork barrel AND for pointing out the RMA as it is now has since inception in 1991 balanced social and economic development. A small edit - the word "this" is duplicated somewhere near the middle
Talk about a shopping list of winners and losers! This is an excellent piece of analysis, thanks. When I asked MfE what the process was to whittle the application list from 392 to 149 there were crickets. Just a bunch of ministers behind closed doors, picking their faves at random. And then to hear that the FTAG spent less than 3 hours deciding on the mining applications makes me weep. As a member of the small community of Tarras, the David and Goliath battle of us versus Santana Minerals AKA FTA107 is just beginning.
Very happy I discovered your blog. Thanks for this detailed analysis. NZ needs a lot more of these backgrounders to get more people to understand the dynamics at play in policy and law making...
This is an incredible summary of this atrocious bill, thank you so much for digging through it! We sighed a big sigh of relief down here in Golden Bay when the Sam’s Creek gold mine which would have threatened the world’s clearest springs (Te Waikoropupū) did not end up on this list. But maybe it’s just a matter of time, depending how long Shane Jones gets to be in his role… as a former marine ecologist with a PhD on the environmental impacts of mining, the Taranaki seabed mining frightens the living crap out of me. It will be an utter ecological disaster, and lead to more than one extinction seeing we have so little knowledge of what species & ecosystems exist down there. I hope that the public opposition to ramming this atrocity through may cost this coalition the next election, and that it still can be stopped.
great summary Allan. Disjointed in deed. Port strategy seems to be a dog's breakfast. I feel you are being generous with the term "think" in think disjointed! Is there any mention in the legislation around compliance and increased scrutiny to hold applications accountable to their approvals?
Good stuff Allan. Thanks for your hard work digging into and exposing the fast track bill’s lack of any coherent strategic foundation. Pork barrel politics at its worst.
Well done. A long read. Thanks for categorising the pretend projects assessment study as a political pork barrel AND for pointing out the RMA as it is now has since inception in 1991 balanced social and economic development. A small edit - the word "this" is duplicated somewhere near the middle