NZ First says it will focus on fixing infrastructure damaged by bad weather, tackling pests, weeds and biosecurity threats on land and in water, and improving water storage in rural areas. They also plan to repeal recent planning laws and replace them with new rules that limit who can challenge development decisions, and to reinstate resource management rules while new laws are written.
“The key short term focus is remediating infrastructure in areas damaged by severe weather events, focus on productive rural regions, as well as addressing aquatic and terrestrial pests, weeds and biosecurity.”
“Repeal Labour's planning laws to temporarily reinstate the Resource Management Act before replacing it with legislation modelled on Ireland's Planning and Development Act and England's Town and Country Planning Act to restrict third party appeals, provide greater certainty and replace the Environment Court.”
“the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Act 2018 will be repealed with the Ministry of Energy to actively investigate the potential of former coal mines, rather than the importation of inferior coal from other countries, and white hydrogen.”
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Half the royalties from any mine would stay in the region it came from rather than going to Wellington, earmarked for local infrastructure and services. Around that sits a wider mining package: new zones with clearer rules on where mining may happen, longer permits covering the full life of a mine, a reined-in role for DOC and other agencies, a modern geological survey of what is underground, and the reopening of the School of Mines.
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