Scoop Link: Mining the land and undermining the children

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Mining the land and undermining the children
Monday, 29 March 2010, 1:55 pm
Column: Anne Else

Letter from Elsewhere - By Anne
Else Mining the land and undermining the
children
What do conservation estates and
domestic purposes beneficiaries have in common? Both of them
look after the country’s most valuable assets. But you
wouldn’t know it from the way John Key and his government
have been acting lately.
In the latest Sunday Star
Times (28 March), Rod Oram lambasts the government for
“failing to seek a robust, long-term solution” to the
mining versus conservation issue â€" one which would ensure
that “the economy and environment, treated well, can
enhance each other”. Instead, he says, “tthe government
has failed utterly to be strategic. Instead it is trying to
get by being simply tactical.”
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