On the first day back in office, in fact before a new government was even formed, Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson told NZ Forest & Bird that the government will break its promise to give New Zealanders a say about whether an open-cast coal mine on Denniston Plateau public conservation land can go ahead.
Kate Wilkinson and Gerry Brownlee said on 20 July 2010 that “significant applications to mine on public conservation land should be publicly notified”. Kate Wilkinson confirmed that the government has reneged on this promise in her letter sent to Forest & Bird saying that as there was currently no legal requirement to consult the public on the mine, The Government would not do so.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10769949
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/what-we-do/publications/media-release/government-ramps-mining-agenda-on-first-day-back-in-office
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10769949
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/what-we-do/publications/media-release/government-ramps-mining-agenda-on-first-day-back-in-office
