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Showing posts with label Coal mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coal mining. Show all posts

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Mike's Minute: Coal is a return to the real world


More from our common sense file.

Resources Minister Shane Jones has had a good week and I'm increasingly falling in love with him.

He turned on the country's only electric digger. This is a big mother and may well be the future of heavy industrial work.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 16/4/24



Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loosened our coal-mining rules

David Seymour and Winston Peters today signaled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today.

Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be established and for existing services to operate.