It's a shameful business, toadying, in my opinion. Plenty of others it seems, thought so to.
Here's a nicely thought-out placard. Another read, "John, we've got to talk. Your coal addiction is out of control."
Nice.
Well done to those people.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Worse than an ACC letterhead
Prime Minister John Key was met by a barrage of protest as he made his way to attend the opening of Bathurst Resources' new office yesterday.
It's a shameful business, toadying, in my opinion. Plenty of others it seems, thought so to.
Here's a nicely thought-out placard. Another read, "John, we've got to talk. Your coal addiction is out of control."
Nice.
Well done to those people.
It's a shameful business, toadying, in my opinion. Plenty of others it seems, thought so to.
Here's a nicely thought-out placard. Another read, "John, we've got to talk. Your coal addiction is out of control."
Nice.
Well done to those people.
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Me: It'll be pretty casual. Just leave your mates behind this time eh?
John: Which mates?
Me: Oh, you know, Teflon John, Smiley John, and I think that's when Hit On Everyone's Coal Deposits John turned up.
Ha! Brilliant.
You must be young and hip.
I have been on the denniston platau. It is a barren wasteland that doesnt really provide any positive aspects to the country around it. Once a mine has been through it and restored the land it wont look any different.
Why dont you do an article on all the precious snails that DOC accidently killed - or does that not owrk in the green favour....
On another point, you should read 'the denniston rose', quite a story by a great kiwi author.
Animal - I weigh your comments about the Denniston Plateau against those of the hundreds of professionals who gave their time recently to assess the biodiversity values of the site, and find yours wanting.
As to the snails - much has been written already. What a stuff-up, is my response, but that's a mere blip on the scale of stuff-ups this Government (and the previous one) have foisted upon our environment.
Hey animal, I've spent plenty of time up there, and it's beautiful, unique & there is nothing else like it in nz. Here's a glimpse of it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLsJWPtwYp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If we found diamonds in the peak of mt cook, would we dig it up? Since the denniston is unique, what is the difference?
Hey animal, I've spent plenty of time up there, and it's beautiful, unique & there is nothing else like it in nz. Here's a glimpse of it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLsJWPtwYp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If we found diamonds in the peak of mt cook, would we dig it up? Since the denniston is unique, what is the difference?
Mr anon you seem to have a stutter. Yes it is interesting up there, in a barron love the rocky desert type of way. I dont need to watch your clip, as said I have been there.
Diamonds on Cook, that would be interesting. The issue is, if the na sayers like you have your way, nothing in NZ would be allowed to develop. I spent my teen years living next to a huge native forest up the new river valley past Shantytown. This whole forest had been previously milled, then mined and then then no resoration work was done at all. Yet eighty years later it was a beautiful forest with plenty of large native trees.
Regeneration is very possible, jst open your eyes and have a look.
Animal doesn't need to see the Denniston Plateau through your eyes, anon, he's seen it through his own and judged it wasteland and he must be right because he's from the West Coast and he's a pragmatist - if there's profit in it, and jobs for the lads, let 'er rip, animal says, fell it, dig it, drill it and damn the torpedoes. Humans have to make a crust and if that means the destruction of the environment that we live in, so be it.
Animal has spoken.
"if there's profit in it, and jobs for the lads, let 'er rip, animal says, fell it, dig it, drill it and damn the torpedoes"
Come on RG - thats words in my mouth and as for being pragmatic I do like what wiki has to say about it, Intelligent practise it says... the masses have spoken, one to me :)
If the masses say it, animal, it must be so.
12U.
This whole forest had been previously milled, then mined and then then no resoration work was done at all. Yet eighty years later it was a beautiful forest with plenty of large native trees.
Just hold on a second there Animal.
The Marsden/New River area has been highly modified and continues to be highly modified, and the large trees you mention are usually the handful of small rimu that were left by saw millers over a century ago.
I too grew up in this area and spent my youth in the bush, (and developed a love for it), while there is some cover returning it is highly modified and not representative of the original species mix.
The damage that alluvial gold mining has done to the area is quite incredible, as is the damage currently returning to the area from the 'new' gold rush currently under way. Just go and have a look out near Woods creek and see what I mean.
You are right Mr Shunda - the alluvial gold mining has certainly shifted some dirt and left quite a mess in some areas. The areas I'm talking about, to the left of Chapel Hill above Card Creek was not mined by machinery but milled then mined by Euros, then the Chinese. All through this forest are the remains, the tramlines, the trenches and the old Chinese camps. Yep - no doubt some methods in the 80's were nothing but destructive - you have my vote there as I watched it all happen. My point is, with a careful and considerate operator (if there is such a person)one can operate in an area and then restore the ground to such a degree that forests can return. As Rachel Hunter said, it wont happen overnight, but it will happen.
My neighbour in those days had lived there for eighty years and often talked of his amazement of how the forests regenerated.
As for Woods Creek, I sure do miss Freddy.
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