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| Mayor Kockshorn |
Mayor Kockshorn has taken the opportunity provided by the league to announce that he'd like to see the national park open cast mined.
Kockshorn "believed Pike River should have been open-cast all along, but "restrictive DoC conditions" and the price of coal at the time the mine started ...meant it was prohibitive."
Nice one Tony.
You've taken us all completely by surprise. Who'd have ever guessed that idea would surface?
Gerry Brownlee will be as surprised as we are!
Here's the article.
I can do the smiley face emoticon, but how do you do the wry smile, tinged with exasperation and resignation?
