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Mining Industry Hypocrisy

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 29 Mar 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A podcast episode where Shane Jones, as Resources Minister, addresses issues including satellite-powered virtual fencing for farmers, critiques Sir Ian Taylor’s anti-mining stance and claims of hypocrisy, challenges activist actions in fisheries, and responds to the ongoing fuel-

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  • Hon Shane Jones the-country The Country 02/04/26: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay 2 Apr · 50s
    Well, he's finally owned up to the hypocrisy and the stance that Sir Ian has taken. I've told you all along his firm makes millions of dollars out of the mining industry in New Zealand, the mining industry in Australia, and this specious argument that he's been dragooned into by these elitist, aging people who want to pull up the escalator in Otago and pull up the ladder and not give others a chance. Now, I congratulate. So Ian, for finally admitting that his industry makes millions out of mining, I've been saying it all along. It's just that he's being, in my view, befuddled and got involved in something he needs to reverse from. He has no authority, no right, no status to interfere with the gold mining application in Otago.
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the-country Government / N-A

exposing political contradictions in anti-mining claims

The Country 02/04/26: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
2 Apr
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