Miners Claims on Wharekirauponga Conservation Land Inaccurate
The comments made by a mining industry representative on RNZ last week promoting Oceana Gold‘s proposal to mine conservation land at Wharekirauponga were inaccurate and disrespectful of local efforts to control pests. Patrick Phelps, a representative of the West Coast Minerals Forum speaking for Oceana, said mining should be allowed to occur in this nationally…