Excellent article on the Fast-track bill’s implications from an economical viewpoint in The Conversation, and re-run in RNZ, by Professor Glenn Banks of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University – Professor Banks…
‘e-waste’ research and development advances offer promising alternatives to mining for gold – Researchers at Cornell University have created a sustainable method to extract gold from electronic waste and use it as a catalyst to transform CO2 into valuable organic…
Gold mining relies heavily on the use of toxic chemicals and produces so much waste that it is hard to grasp. The environmental effects of gold mining are devastating. It generates inconceivable amounts of waste. Every 40 seconds, gold mining…
Another day, another massive mining waste disaster. Just weeks ago. Do we want this to be the fate of the Takaka River, the pristine Springs, our beautiful bay? Our community’s drinking water and lifeblood? It’s a no from me. “A…
“Open-cast mines are for keeps, so no to gold prospecting” Excellent opinion piece from Richard Reeve in the Otago Daily Times on the late Brian Turner, poet, essayist, author, environmentalist and acclaimed Otago legend. “Turner died last month. While he…