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.
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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.
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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, signthis petition. Every signature helps.
It takes no time at all—you only have to input a name and email. An additonal comment is optional.
(andif anyone wants more details, hit me up. I have many more reasons that you should sign!)
Everyone reblogging and signing this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I wish I could show I appreciate your comments without just repeatedly liking and unliking my own post.
The third day of this petition has just begun, in an organisation that can struggle to get engagement, and we’re already at (minimum) 8,052 signatures!!
(Why 'minimum’? Well, so many people are signing, the website is struggling to regularly increase the display number! signatures are going through don’t worry)
We have so much more planned for Denniston, and we’ve already gotten so many people who care.
It means so much to me, and to all the others trying their hardest to save Denniston. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and keep the signatures coming!
so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig
happy one year of this post. and from the bottom of my heart. i did not know what i wrought
One of my grandfathers was a dentist. The other was a fisherman.
I had a bonus grandfather who was a trucker.
What did your grandfathers do?
Ok, an unusually high number of people in the comments have relatives that probably have a Wikipedia article with their name.
I hope you don’t mind if I share this, but this is a very good point!
this has me thinking about my grandfather who was an aerospace engineer, which is a normal profession to me, but when he was born jet engines didn’t exist yet. I bet some people thought he was a witch
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