Best stop-him-in-his-tracks question at tonight's 'Meet Mr Smith Meet' went to the lovely lady from Lumsden, who asked the Minister (who had just described how important the Government felt it was to follow Best Practice with all mining and drilling projects in NZ, based on overseas models),
"Minister, can you tell us, where is the world's best practice example of lignite mining?"
A stunned and awkward silence enveloped the Minister before he claimed that he 'wasn't willing to say'.
The complimentary bag of dirty ol' lignite goes to Chris Henderson for both the quality of the question, and the timing!
