National Party smokescreen emails again
State Services Commission investigates leaks to media
The State Services Commission has launched an inquiry into two leaks of information to the media, one on state sector restructuring and another into the leak of information about mining on conservation land. Commissioner Iain Rennie said the first of two inquiries into the unauthorised release of Government information would cover the unauthorised disclosure of information relating to a Cabinet paper on the 'Stocktake of Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991.' Forest and Bird spokesman Kevin Hackwell said this week the organisation had "learnt" the Government wanted mining to be allowed in West Coast's Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and on the Coromandel Peninsula. The second inquiry would be into the unauthorised disclosure of information relating to a machinery of government Cabinet paper on proposed changes to the structure of the State sector. Unofficial reports emerged last week that the Government was looking at rolling the National Library and Archives New Zealand into the Department of Internal Affairs, merging the Food Safety Authority with MAF, and amalgamating the Foundation for Science, Research and Technology with the ministry of the same name.
This is the favourite tactic used by National now when emails are leaked, rather than talk about what has been leaked (cost cutting Departments and mining on Conservation land so John Key can smite Thames), National attempt to move the focus on WHO LEAKED THEM, in the exact same way National did with the Don Brash Emails.
Remember what John said about the Don Brash emails? That even though the Police had said hacking the emails was the most unlikely event, Key claimed it did happen and any suggestion that it was printed emails leaked from a combination of Bill English (who was toppled by Brash), Mary English (on the school board with Nicky Hager) and David Farrar (the IT boss at Don Brash's office) was left wing conspiracy bollocks.
Yeah right. Who leaked the information is important, but only if the leaking manipulates what is leaked, if it doesn't the focus should be on what has been leaked. By starting a witch hunt National hopes to keep the focus off what has been leaked. Opening up half a million hectares of Conservation Land to the bloody Mining Industry based on bullshit figures is not environmental mining.
posted by Bomber @ 6:55 pm
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Two things. 1st, why are you so certain that the emails were not hacked? Wellington is a small place and I'm always supprised just how many people know and are connected to others here. That doesn't make it one way or another, but from what I have heard about the emails from Don Brash, he seems certain that they are hacked, and it makes more sense. At that stage National were in the lead on the polls. A Bill English plot seems a very poor decision.
2nd point, That keyboard you use to type your words, that petrol in the car or the bus you used today, that Tungsten filament or Mercury in your lightbulbs are all derived from mining.
Glass, metals and plastics are all derived from mining.
Even if just a small proportion of the low value conservation estate undergoes mining, their will still be the vast amount of untouched land preserved.
Blanket opposition to mining in New Zealand or even the low conservation lands is backward. It wont stop demand for minerals, and will just result in exploitation overseas and a worsening trade imbalance.
1st, why are you so certain that the emails were not hacked? Wellington is a small place and I'm always supprised just how many people know and are connected to others here. That doesn't make it one way or another, but from what I have heard about the emails from Don Brash, he seems certain that they are hacked, and it makes more sense. At that stage National were in the lead on the polls. A Bill English plot seems a very poor decision.
There is a couple of reason why I don't think they were hacked.
1: The Police say they weren't
2: Nicky Hager said they weren't and that he received the emails from a National Party insider.
3: Each day in the run up to the election Don Brash would have his emails printed off for him, he would then write a large S on the emails that needed to be shredded. These emails were not shredded and they were over to Hager instead.
4: Bill was toppled by Brash and wanted to lash out at him, Mary English (Bill's wife) sits on the same School board that Hager does and David Farrar (who has had fights with me on Tumeke over this) was the IT boss of Don's office at the time, David is best friends with the English family and David came on to Tumeke and has claimed that Don NEVER printed his emails out and that the idea of the printed email is NOT the source, David wasn't being honest because it turns out Don did in fact print his emails off.
That's why i believe the source was an insider who handed over to Hager the emails that were supposed to be shredded.
Second point: Simply pointing out the necessity of minerals within the consumer culture that is slowly killing off the planet because of its environmental impact is hardly a reason to continue down that track.
WE are talking conservation land anon, land we put aside to NOT touch and could you inform me ANon where the $140 billion quote comes from? We are being lied to over mining and how much is actually here.
Running the line about "low value conservation lands" is scandalous.
When they talk about mining in the conservation estate, first and foremost they mean the Coromandel conservation estate. Secondly, the option with the highest returns in that area would be to open cast at the location of historic gold mines.
I wonder if it will bring the same rewards as previous gold mining efforts? No tax on the recovered metal and an Australian owned mining company running a local shell company which can be tanked in order to avoid long term clean up costs.
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