the money in mining
Posted: April 15th, 2010 | Author: Zef | Filed under: Environmentalism, Infographics | Tags: mining | 4 Comments »In March 2010, New Zealand’s Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee and Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson released a discussion paper containing a suite of measures to facilitate development of New Zealand’s mineral estate – this included minerals within national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, marine reserves and protected islands.
The Standard argued that the figures for mining don’t stack up. Here’s my visual interpretation of these figures (view full size).
