Sir Alan Mark and Rod Morris say the Denniston Plateau is too precious a treasure trove to disturb with opencast mining and must be protected for its unique heritage values.
So, we've lost Stockton but we will resist giving Denniston as well, even if it means another major Manapouri-like campaign AS business reporter Simon Hartley has revealed in a large feature (ODT, 6.3.11), he and predictably similar senior reporters from the country's other media were hosted on a day-long visit to Australian mining giant Bathurst Resources Ltd's target opencast mining area on the Denniston Plateau above Westport.
The local Westport News devoted its entire front page to Bathurst's huge and no doubt costly promotion exercise, part of the "more than $100 million [spent] on the Buller project to date".
By contrast, we, along with more than 150 other conservation enthusiasts, gathered on the Denniston Plateau last weekend for Forest and Bird's BioBlitz, at our own expense.
Otago Daily News
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