6. Modern mining practices ensure good environmental outcomes
Rehabilitation is integral to any mine plan, and a positive legacy is the best way that a mining company has, to be granted community and regulatory consent for their next investment.
Modern mining rehabilitation in New Zealand is world class, as illustrated in our case studies.
Eight reasons a ban makes no sense
- Not all conservation land has high conservation value
- Existing world-class environmental safeguards mean a ban is not necessary
- Minerals are essential to the way we live and are a crucial part of the low carbon future
- A ban would lead to damaging unintended consequences
- Just 0.04% of conservation land is mined
- Modern mining practices ensure good environmental outcomes
- Mining creates well-paid jobs and is important to the New Zealand economy
- Banning mining on conservation land is not the instrument to curb emissions
