Mining Sacred Places




Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand show

Summary: The National Government are poised to do the unthinkable<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-NZ">—</span>open up our most treasured places, our national parks and reserves<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-NZ">—</span>to mining. Can they be serious? Didn't we have this fight 100 years ago? Do New Zealanders really believe that no place is sacred if there's a goldmine or a coalmine sitting underneath it? I talked to a number of Green MPs to find out why they treasure our last remaining wild spaces.