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Wildlife deaths, intergenerational harm flagged in gold mine assessments - as reported by Katie Todd of RNZ this morning. Mine's fast-track bid must be rejected: Ngāi Tahu. Santana's failure to meet treaty obligations means its fast-track application to mine gold at Bendigo must be rejected, Ngāi Tahu says. "Fast track rumble still on if the minister is willing." In yesterday's ODT, Sir Ian Taylor tells Shane Jones that he is still ready to debate him on the Santana mine proposal. "One opportunity to get this right". An excellent summary of the concerns of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, in this morning's Bulletin from The Spinoff. Delay looms for fast-tracked Otago gold mine as public submissions roll in. The mining company behind the Bendigo-Ophir project wanted to speed through the fast-track, but has hit hundreds of speed bumps in the form of expert and public testimony. Amongst the comments from invited parties filed with the Expert Panel yesterday was a submission from Simon Upton, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. It is well worth a read (link below). The problem with this video, which we made last night, is that the number is out of date already. It's now even higher. This afternoon, all of the written comments and expert documents submitted by "invited parties" (deadline midnight, last Friday) have been published online. Our comments, complete with legal submissions and 16 expert reports, are in a section towards the end of the page. Most others are in alphabetical order. In case you missed it on the home page of The Guardian yesterday, a very well rounded article about Santana’s controversial mine. The article includes comments from people on all sides of the debate. You may have noticed that we were unusually quiet online since the start of Easter. That's because we've been on the home stretch to a very important milestone. With news about diesel prices and supplies in recent days, this post becomes even more relevant than when we shared it only four months ago. When news broke in the ODT this morning of Natural Capital Central Otago's campaign, we thought we'd check out their website. We have to say, we're impressed, and we agree with what they're sharing here. Breaking news relating to Santana's controversial fast-track mine. From this morning's Otago Daily Times: Santana's application documents reveal what the likely constituents of the toxic tailings cocktail will be sitting behind that dam made of waste rock, high in the hills above the Lindis and Clutha. Really, you couldn't make this up. The impact of tailings dams can last for decades. Much has been made of the jobs created by the mine. But the reality is clear - once gold mining stops, the jobs will disappear. Birds can't tell the difference between lakes and tailings dams. After landing on a toxic tailings dam, they can die. 99% of residents in the CODC district agree that access to a healthy natural environment for leisure and recreation is key to living here. Shane Jones has pulled out of the highly anticipated, televised debate with Sir Ian Taylor, via the medium of a poem on social media. It has been revealed that the Department of Conservation has assessed the scale of impacts of Santana's controversial mine on lizards "is very high, significant and unprecedented.’’ Sir Ian Taylor types into Chat GPT "Do tailings dams ever fail?". Here's the answer he got. From a recent article in The Post: Foreign mining companies have been heralding their activities in Otago for some time. Now, Canadian mining company KO Gold is ramping up activities near Cromwell. The company, with multiple mining permits all over Otago, is focussing on its “Carrick Project” behind Bannockburn, near Cromwell, and has just announced drilling plans. In this morning's ODT, Professor Caroline Orchiston from the University of Otago shares her concerns about what Santana isn't telling us. She is both an ex-OceanaGold employee (having worked for five years at Macraes gold mine) and a leading expert in NZ alpine earthquake science. We are often asked about how much rock Santana will dig up to get to the gold. When you look at the numbers, they're actually gobsmacking. When Santana invited Sustainable Tarras to join their Community Liaison Group some months ago, we found that the ground rules set by Santana were so predetermined that we chose not to join. It appeared to us that the purpose of the group was to control questioning of Santana's plans, and avoid answering them. Classic text book communications control tactics. In a recent article, Sir Ian Taylor made a very good point about the inequity of the fast-track process. In his recent article, Sir Ian Taylor makes a very good point. In national economic terms the government gets a very small return from the extraction of a finite natural resource. Professor Elaine Baker from the University of Sydney writes: “The way we do mining is still very similar to the Romans. We get a whole lot of waste and we dump it somewhere and we hope that it’s not going to hurt anybody. Shareholder sentiment often tells an important story about a company. Here is what Santana shareholders are doing in the past few months: selling when they can.

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