Mining
Sir,—D. J. Round (July 15) says “mining is exempt from ordinary planning laws.” It has special nationwide statutes of its own that are tougher in land-use controls and environmental reporting than the Town and Country Planning Act. Mining is said to enjoy special taxation privileges — there have been so many changes in the tax laws and regulations that those privileges remaining, if there are any, which is arguable, are probably meaningless. D. J. Round makes a big issue about land owners’ rights, and the fact that mining can take place over the objections of land owners. Mineral ownership is a property right, too, and the mineral owner is the Crown, which allocates the mining rights for the benefit of the people of New Zealand, not for individual land owners. The Crown is very experienced in this and in most cases there are no problems at all. When there are, they can go both ways, against the miners, as in the case of the Blackadders, and against land owners some other times. Mostly we hear only the latter side of the story.—Yours, etc.,
N. A. MacARTHUR. July 20, 1989.
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