Planning and Natural Environment Bills too risk-averse
The NZ Minerals Council calls for more “innovation” and flexibility for mining and less environmental fretting in its submission to the Government’s proposed planning and...
Category : Q&M Comment
Lessons from the UK
Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says the bipartisan consensus emerging in Britain around the need for infrastructure investment should be adopted by both...
Coal bucket protesters strengthen our resolve
After 23 days of illegal coal bucket occupation at Ngakawau, Bathurst Resources does not want the trespassers back, and is taking steps to make sure...
The year ahead
So here we are in 2025 – a quarter of a way through the century – and hopefully all refreshed and raring to go. The...
Featured Nine years of risk and delays to extractive workers
Quarry and alluvial mine workers have faced nine years of risk through delays in new Government regulations, says Wayne Scott, CEO of the Mining Extractive...
Freshwater standards implications
The AQA is concerned with new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater Regulations 2020 as it relates to the minerals and aggregate sector (and earthworks generally)....