Whoops
February 26th, 2010 at 9:24 am by David FarrarNZPA at 8.14 am reported:
Wellington, Feb 26 NZPA – A report prepared for the Government proposes opening 500 million hectares of conservation land to mining, it was reported today.
Now the land area of all of New Zealand is 268,000 square kms. That is 26.8 million hectares.
Australia is around 760 million hectares so NZPA have exposed that Gerry Brownlee’s cunning plan is to invade and take over Australia, and turn the entire country, except for New South Wales, into New Zealand mines.
A further NZPA report at 8.52 am reports:
Radio New Zealand (RNZ) today reported that 7 percent of schedule four land was recommended to have protection removed to allow mining.
However it understood the Government thought that was too extreme and had scaled back the area, in a proposal to be considered by Cabinet on Monday, to 7000ha.
Mr Brownlee would not confirm the details when asked by RNZ.
I’m not sure what the correct figure is, but I guess it will be closer to 7,000 hectares than to 500 million!
Now 7,000 hectares is less than 1% of the additional land Labour put into Section 4 in 2008. So Labour reclassified around 800,000 (off memory) hectares of land as Section 4, and according to Radio NZ National is looking at reversing less than 1% of that.
The total conservation estate is 30% of all of NZ, which means it is around 8.04 million hectares.
That means that, if the Radio NZ report is correct, the proposal is for 0.087% of the conservation estate to be reclassified from Section 4 to non Section 4.
February 26th, 2010 at 9:29 am
“Australia is around 760 million hectares so NZPA have exposed that Gerry Brownlee’s cunning plan is to invade and take over Australia, and turn the entire country, except for New South Wales, into New Zealand mines.”
That’s a good plan. Drill, baby, Drill!
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Well, we already control the Gold Coast through sheer weight of numbers.
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Well the bulk of our most succesful people are already there so I say go.
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 9:53 am
A hectare is 2.471 acres, according to the conversion measure at the back of the dictionary.
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Well, that’s a nice investment package. I wonder who else is riding on the self serving regulation, one thing for sure it wouldn’t be the Greens.
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Hold on, we already have a beachhead established at Bondi- let’s start the takeover there and ignore Victoria…
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:11 am
So it would be more accurate to call the government mining plan for economic growth just a ” a few small pimples. ” This makes the shrill hysteria of the Labour/ Greens to be what it is. Catastophisation
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:12 am
500 million hectares! Gerry must be planning to mine the seabed as well.
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:15 am
“Gerry must be planning to mine the seabed as well.”
Makes perfect sense to me, if there are riches to be had then go and get them.
Drill baby drill!
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 10:53 am
toad (1868) Says:
February 26th, 2010 at 10:12 am
500 million hectares! Gerry must be planning to mine the seabed as well.
As well as the Ross Dependency.
Drill baby, drill!
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 11:03 am
I wonder of John will be buying back his uranium shares then?
Vote:February 26th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Only when his investment is matured and reclaim at his own money, oh the repeated offender!!!
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