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  1. There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:

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    Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:

    * producing arsenic-bearing tailings
    * stored behind a dam
    * located in a seismically active region
    * at the headwaters of major water systems.

    Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.

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    While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.

    Forever.

    stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360927629/

    #Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ

  2. I almost didn't click on this vomit-inducing headline which reads, "David Seymour, you are my Person of the Year for 2024".

    But it's worth a read. Ian Taylor lays into Mister 8% Seymour and his Atlas Network philosophy of selfishness.

    stuff.co.nz/politics/360568115

    #NZPol #IanTaylor #Seymour #AtlasNetwork