New push to extract minerals raises thorny issues but could it lead to greener future?

By Emma Ricketts
Contributing writer·New Zealand Listener·
17 mins to read

New push to extract minerals raises thorny issues but could it lead to greener future?
New push to extract minerals raises thorny issues but could it lead to greener future?

Sefton Darby is frustrated. New Zealand’s coalition government has announced a minerals strategy and changes to the resource consent framework – aka the Fast-track Approvals Bill – that are driving intense debate about the country’s mining future. But he feels no one is communicating.

“Both sides are just shouting past

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