Ocean floor mining

**george formby** · 16th June 2014, 16:23

Talk about muddying the waters. The subject of this article & the potential consequences shits me more than the slim risk of an oil spill.

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/ze...--finance.html

If there is an existing thread on this, mods, my apologies. Make them one.

**awa355** · 16th June 2014, 16:44

Do we want NZ to lead the way in possibly destorying the last natural resource on the planet? Seems like it is going to happen anyway.

Corporate greed is likely to continue untill there is nothing left.

**george formby** · 16th June 2014, 16:50

Originally Posted by awa355

Do we want NZ to lead the way in possibly destorying the last natural resource on the planet? Seems like it is going to happen anyway.

Corporate greed is likely to continue untill there is nothing left.

Decision to be made on Wednesday oy tink. Loads of time for the nation to discuss pros & cons. How very public minded.

**oldrider** · 16th June 2014, 17:06

Originally Posted by awa355

Do we want NZ to lead the way in possibly destorying the last natural resource on the planet? Seems like it is going to happen anyway.

Corporate greed is likely to continue untill there is nothing left.

What do you suggest we do ... leave all the natural resources where they are and starve to death in the darkness and cold!

Corporate greed is generally in response to consumer need ... have you no needs what so ever!

**mashman** · 16th June 2014, 17:06

($1 = 1.1562 New Zealand Dollars)

**Akzle** · 16th June 2014, 17:49

i hope they pay their taniwha tax, then its all G.

...G for gew. that is.

fuck, some old white guys just need to be shot.

**Robert Taylor** · 16th June 2014, 18:23

Originally Posted by oldrider

What do you suggest we do ... leave all the natural resources where they are and starve to death in the darkness and cold!

Corporate greed is generally in response to consumer need ... have you no needs what so ever!

Corporate greed is very real but there are many companies that also have a responsible ethic. What all of these people bleating from their socialist households forget is that the tax take generated largely by business and the employees of those businesses is what funds our safety nets ( and beyond safety nets ) of welfare and constantly revisited / topped up treaty settlements.

Nothing is perfect but you dont shut down the means of earning tax dollars and employing people

**Robert Taylor** · 16th June 2014, 18:30

Originally Posted by Akzle

i hope they pay their taniwha tax, then its all G.

...G for gew. that is.

fuck, some old white guys just need to be shot.

Yes and your lot were very good at killing each other, killing more of each other than the white man ever did. Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.

If the white man is so bad ( and doubtless part of your own bloodstream ) I suggest you go back to your leaky flax huts and huddle around your smoky fires. Its attitudes such as yours that really rile the many mixed race people of this country who just want to get on with life and be New Zealanders. They dont want to hear all of this divisive racial bullshit that you are mindlessly espousing.

And if your white blood that you will have a percentage of is so bad might I suggest suicide as an option?

**Katman** · 16th June 2014, 18:42

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

What all of these people bleating from their socialist households forget is that the tax take generated largely by business and the employees of those businesses is what funds our safety nets ( and beyond safety nets ) of welfare and constantly revisited / topped up treaty settlements.

Lets not forget about the billions of tax dollars that many of the largest New Zealand companies are masters at evading.

**Robert Taylor** · 16th June 2014, 18:46

Originally Posted by Katman

Lets not forget about the billions of tax dollars that many of the largest New Zealand companies are masters at evading.

And the employment they provide ( but Im not justifying tax evasion which happens at ALL levels of society )

**awa355** · 16th June 2014, 18:51

Originally Posted by oldrider

What do you suggest we do ... leave all the natural resources where they are and starve to death in the darkness and cold!

Corporate greed is generally in response to consumer need ... have you no needs what so ever!

Well, we have managed not to starve to death so far without sea bed mining.

The so called ' consumer need ' is generated by the very same corporations that want the excuse to mine the sea bed. There's a big difference between needs and wants.

**Laava** · 16th June 2014, 18:52

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

Yes and your lot were very good at killing each other, killing more of each other than the white man ever did. Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.

If the white man is so bad ( and doubtless part of your own bloodstream ) I suggest you go back to your leaky flax huts and huddle around your smoky fires. Its attitudes such as yours that really rile the many mixed race people of this country who just want to get on with life and be New Zealanders. They dont want to hear all of this divisive racial bullshit that you are mindlessly espousing.

And if your white blood that you will have a percentage of is so bad might I suggest suicide as an option?

Haha classic! Bet he's whiter than you are and mid thirties at a guess. About right Rob?(axle, not you robert)

**Maha** · 16th June 2014, 19:04

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

And if your white blood that you will have a percentage of is so bad might I suggest suicide as an option?

Blood is red, it is a pigment called melanin that determines skin colour, not blood.

**mashman** · 16th June 2014, 19:08

Originally Posted by awa355

Well, we have managed not to starve to death so far without sea bed mining.

The so called ' consumer need ' is generated by the very same corporations that want the excuse to mine the sea bed. There's a big difference between needs and wants.

I see truth in them thar hills... yet the force is strong with the gods of marketing and advertising.