Hello! I don't know many other kiwis online, but I am trying my hardest to spread this cause around.
To anyone from Aotearoa reading this. Please, sign this petition. Share this cause with your followers, or anyone you know who may sign. Thank you.
A mining company, Bathurst, wants to turn Denniston Plateau into a giant open-cast mine. The nearby Stockton mine is pictured below.
Denniston is home to incredible ecology found nowhere else. Tiny plants. Fossils. Ancient sandstone landscapes. Odd-coloured geckos, flatworms, kiwi, fernbirds, peripatus, and the infamous Avatar Moth.
If this plan goes ahead, they are all lost forever. Along with any chance for study or scientific advancement.
It will also poison major waterways. Runoff from the nearby Stockton mine can, quite literally, dissolve a car.
The money is flowing into the pockets of overseas investors, and they are mainly employing overseas workers. This plan will not 'strengthen the nz economy'. It will weaken tourism, worsen our climate, and make the town of Westport even more dependent on Bathurst.
This mine will cost Aotearoa far, far more than what Bathurst pays us. The human cost, and the environmental cost, is even worse.
Denniston is on stewardship land. This mine will set a dangerous precedent for all protected spaces.
Bathurst proposed this plan a decade ago. (They are now appealing under the fast-track bill.) We beat them before, and we will beat them again!
Anyone in Aotearoa, please, sign this petition. Every signature helps.
It takes no time at all---you only have to input a name and email. An additonal comment is optional.
(and if anyone wants more details, hit me up. I have many more reasons that you should sign!)
tagging people I know are in aotearoa: