Solid Energy's angling to buy Pike River Mine and re-start mining there, no doubt encouraged by the National Government's plans to 'partially sell' the S.O.E. that would give them the capital they'd need to start digging out the fateful mine.
Solid Energy and National have their cheerleaders, but fortunately, the renewed call to mine, using the internationally admired and environmentally sensitive 'open cut' method is coming from a couple of clowns - Rodney Hide and Tony Kockshorn.
Doubtless Key (remember the Pierrot suit?) will be in on the act too. I see the three of them in a funny little car with a squeeze-bulb horn 'honk honk' trying to jam chunks of coal into the petrol tank but that wee clown-car's going nowhere!
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Unfortunately, the events in the world at the moment make coal look attractive (to some). It did cross my mind that maybe there is a job in mining for Mr Hide when he's turfed from Epsom..........
I've read your post on the potential Robert and quaked (I did).
Mr Hide, pick slung over his shoulder, hi ho-ing off to the mines - that works for me!
Opencast mining prevents forest fires, Robert....
Thanks Yogi!
I think jobs in Christchurch building wind and tidal energy parts would make more sense, and rail jobs in Dunedin and Wellington - to provide for the rail needs of the rest of the country.
Lightrail for Christchurch!
Rodney Hide like the other Act party fraudster, David Garret the baby ID snatcher - have worked on oil rigs. I guess Rodney Hide could be in a thunderbirds movie if he looses his seat this year, which is looking ever more likely.
The West Coast deserves more than to be mined for profit by Australian and Chinese mining corporations. I want to hear about clean energy and non mining jobs for Coasters. Tidal energy parts factory for the West Coast?
Surely there is a lot of tidal energy potential with those wild wild coastlines.
Rodney Hides environmental ideas are stuck in the same century as Don Brash's race views. its not the 1800s anymore guys!
Thanks for your refreshing views anon.
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