Coffers are running low thus taxes are soon to run high as our nation verges on insolvency.
That said, why is the New Zealand Government not doing more to support viable economic ventures?
Why is the Government restricting rather than supporting potentially lucrative prospects, such as goldmining, in New Zealand?
Gold is still plentiful around the country and equipment for goldmining still exists; while excess bureaucracy means that most of that gear currently sits idle the value of gold has never been higher yet, for some reason, this is a revenue-stream on which the New Zealand Government is unwilling to capitalise.
Statements akin to the following might be familiar to struggling Kiwi entrepreneurs: ‘The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has shut down a West Coast gold mining exploration venture that was injecting $500,000 a year into the local economy.’
Gold can be lifted from our lakes, rivers, and landscapes throughout New Zealand without causing destruction to our eco-system; goldmining would create potentially thousands of jobs across the nation and ultimately, it would revive a forgotten industry.
Like the drilling of oil – which can be harmful to our eco-system – goldmining has been vilified by ignorant eco-warriors who erroneously assume that, because this is another form of mining, goldmining must also be damaging to nature; again, gold can be mined across New Zealand with minimal effect to the eco-system.
New Zealand’s Department of Conservation is, expectedly, responsible for the stymieing of goldmining production, undoubtedly, under coercion from an incessantly interfering Green party, ignorantly, under the impression that such efforts would cause irreparable harm to West Coast rivers’ natural beauty…
The following is an exasperated quote from South Island farm owner and hopeful West Coast goldminer, Peter Morrison: “We applied a year ago for a mining permit but we’re still waiting.”
…Peter Morrison owns 500 hectares of land on the West Coast and has already invested around $2 million prospecting for, and discovering, gold on his block; now, it seems, New Zealand Government is preventing him from extracting, thus being heavily taxed on the value of, that gold.
While New Zealand Government’s Financial sector struggles to source funding to continue to hand out money to the people, the flourishing Bureaucratic sector continues to find reason to hamper business progress.
‘But after being told by MBIE he was breaching the exploration permit and threatened with massive fines, Morrison has been forced to pull the plug.’
“We applied a year ago for a mining permit but we’re still waiting.”
The above bureaucratic delay seems to be the norm in New Zealand; unless you’re someone of eminence, the only time Government takes notice is if you’re doing something illegal.
Potentially millions more dollars to be spent on this potential goldmining endeavour with umpteen potential new careers across the district; so much potential prosperity for so many people on the West Coast, now lost, because the New Zealand Government would rather borrow future millions from China than take them from taxable business enterprises in the South.
This is an example of one more business prospect to become entangled amid the web of bureaucracy cast by New Zealand’s Socialist governance; the problem, realistically, is that our ever-influential band of Eco-warriors has never been supportive of anything relating to progression, efficiency, or lucrativeness – goldmining is potentially all three.
Additionally bothersome is when the New Zealand Government is bound by bureaucracy to such an extent that they are unable to incarcerate or deport an ISIS-supporting potential-terrorist and must instead spend tens of thousands of dollars employing officials to basically babysit the shithead, until he starts stabbing people, then they can finally get rid of him.
The message appears clear: stabbing people in New Zealand is bad, goldmining in New Zealand is good, and there is too much bureaucracy in New Zealand for the future prosperity of either.
Article by Tim Walker
Edited by Stabby McGee
Photography by Burrow Chrissy