TL;DR: One of the architects of the RMA and a former National Cabinet Minister, Simon Upton, has criticised the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals bill as potentially disastrous for the environment, arguing just 1% of consents were currently rejected and just 7% of the larger ‘notified’ consents were rejected.
Meanwhile, Energy Minister Shane Jones announced a plan to mine conservation and other land to double minerals and coal exports by 2035, but did not look at the the climate effects, which are currently set to mean Aotearoa-NZ breaches its just-signed trade agreements with the UK and Europe.
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