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Scoop Images: Schedule 4 Mining Protest At Parliament

“Our wind is fierce/Our sunshine’s strong/Mining in parks/will not go on!” The chant boomed across Parliament’s grounds as hundreds gathered Tuesday to protest Government plans to allow mining in Schedule 4 protected conservation lands. More>>

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• TV3 Video - Mining protest planned at lunchtime in Wellington

Smellie Sniffs The Breeze: Never Saw That Coming

It’s a guess, but here’s a theory. This week’s mining announcements had been stuck on the Cabinet table for weeks. Action Man Brownlee was fretting and he pushed hard to get this stuff out. Who knows? Maybe the Cabinet logic ran: let’s get this dead rat released and it’ll confuse the natives when we do the mid-week welfare reforms. If so, it probably kind of worked. More>>

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• Sunday Star-Times Out-Link - Rod Oram: Stuck between rocky riches and hard truths
• Pundit.co.nz Out-Link - Mining Our Natural Potential: not specious, just stupid
• Greens - Government to blame for mining fury
• TV3 Video - Swiss company to unearth the mining debate
• NZ Business Council for Sustainable Developement - Kiwis sticking to green values despite recession
• Forest and Bird - Too precious to mine rally at Parliament Tuesday
• Anne Else - Mining the land and undermining the children
• Scoop Full Coverage - Changes To Benefit Entitlements

The Nation: Brownlee Sees Bigger Role For Solid Energy

Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee seems to be proposing a bigger role for state owned Solid Energy Ltd in the exploitation of the country’s mineral resources. More>>

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• Businesswire - SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Never Saw That Coming
• NZ Govt - Minister Welcomes Poll On Stocktake Plan
• Labour - More Dodgy Dealings From National?
• NZ Govt - Hon Gerry Brownlee: Correction and Clarification
• Labour - Brownlee Correcting Mistakes Still Obfuscates
• Greens - Open Cast Mining Ruled Out In Paparoa
• Greens - Government needs to come clean on dirty mining
• Coromandel Watchdog - Image Shows Real Life Eden Park-Mining Impacts

Mining: Greens Not Reassured

“It was telling in the House yesterday, when John Key promised no open cast mining for Coromandel, that he failed to mention Paparoa,” Mr Hague said. More>>

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• NZ Govt - Labour’s mining hypocrisy laid bare
• Labour - National’s comedy act on mining continues
• TV3 Video - Backlash over mining plans forces Govt rethink
• Public Address Out-Link - OnPoint: Dear Gerry

Miner Problems: International Backlash Gathers Speed

Greenpeace says the kind of international backlash seen today in the Economist magazine demonstrates that John Key’s Government is putting the New Zealand economy at risk with its 19th century economic thinking. More>>

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• Scoop Link - Link: The Economist on NZ's Environmental Record
• NZ Govt - Some facts about mining in New Zealand
• Public Address Out-Link - OnPoint: P is for Potential
• Greens - John Key is damaging our economy
• Greens - Minister of Tourism: where the bloody hell are ya?
• Labour - John Key’s mining plans - 100% Dumb
• Auckland Regional Council - Mining on Great Barrier an outrage
• Cllr Denise Roche - Banks should support the whole environment
• Red Alert Out-Link - Mallard: Labour will close mines, no compensation
• Pundit Out-Link - Prime Minister talking money, dairy talking crap
• Coromandel Watchdog - 500 Underground Mines Needed to Meet Projections
• TV3 Video - Some sceptical of Goff's anti-mining message
• TV3 Video - Mining may be answer for Stewart after tourism downturn
• No Right Turn Out-Link - Digging up our natural heritage... for shingle
• The Standard Out-Link - The numbers on mining don’t stack up
• Questions and Answers - 23 Mar 2010

Balancing Our Enviromental Respon... Maximising Our Mineral Potential: Gordon Campbell On Mining's Green Light

Well, we learned yesterday that Forest and Bird leaks had been right all along, and that the government is indeed planning to take 7,058 hectares of land currently under Schedule 4 protection (because it had been judged to be crucial to the conservation estate) and to hand it over to mining companies... If you believe there is such a thing as mining with an invisible footprint, yesterday was a very big day for you.

The maths of the exercise though, are still completely wonky... More>>

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• Rory MacKinnon - Scoop Audio: Brownlee and Wilkinson on Sched 4
• Rory MacKinnon - PM's Presser - Schedule 4 Report Released
• r2.co.nz - Video: PM's Presser 22/3/10 - Mining
• NZ Govt - Time to discuss maximising our mineral potential
• Nikki Kaye - MP to work with constituents on the Great Barrier Island mining
• Greens - Despite Key’s retreat, mining companies rule roost
• Labour - Coromandel now open for mining
• Labour - Hands off Great Barrier Island and Coromandel
• NZ Petroleum Exploration and Production Assn - Review of DOC Estate for Mining welcomed
• Business NZ - Judicious minerals use welcomed
• Greenpeace NZ - Mining decision attacks NZ values, brand, identity
• Solid Energy NZ - Consultation on maximising NZ's mineral potential
• Coromandel Watchdog - Govt Will Receive Fierce & Relentless Backlash
• Environmental Defence Society - Society disappointed with Schedule 4 mining review
• John Banks - Banks Says NO to Mining on Great Barrier
• Newmont Waihi Gold - Opportunity for Debate on Minerals Review Welcome
• Forest And Bird - Mining proposals worse than Forest & Bird feared
• Environment and Conservation Organisations of NZ - Government proposes MED takeover of conservation
• Federated Mountain Clubs - Govt mining plan is death by a thousand cuts!
• Environmental Defence Society - EDS astonished at mining on Great Barrier
• Scoop Full Coverage - Leaks on National Park Mining
• TV3 Video - Full mining press conference - Govt puts mining plans on the table - Coromandel eyed up for mining by Govt - Forces gather against Govt's mining plan - Gerry Brownlee makes the case for mining - Govt mining proposals could flatten Nats - opinion
• Public Address Link - OnPoint: Rational, then
• Public Address Link - Hard News: The back of a bloody envelope
• The Dim-Post Link - Mining the Conservation Estate
• The Visible Hand Link - One perspective on mining conservation land
• No Right Turn Link - "Hysteria" becomes policy
• fog on water Out-Link - Comparing proposed mine sites to places you know

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