There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:

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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:

* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.

Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.

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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.

Forever.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360927629/ian-taylor-dear-chris-bishop-not-kind-future-we-should-fast-track

#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ

Jeez. Ian's really obsessed with his own importance these days, isn't he.

"So I told the Prime Minister what she was doing wrong... but did she listen?"

@Salty

#IanTaylor

I almost didn't click on this vomit-inducing headline which reads, "David Seymour, you are my Person of the Year for 2024".

But it's worth a read. Ian Taylor lays into Mister 8% Seymour and his Atlas Network philosophy of selfishness.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360568115/sir-ian-taylor-david-seymour-you-are-my-person-year-2024

#NZPol #IanTaylor #Seymour #AtlasNetwork

A #blackBritishman with severe asthma died in #Brixton whilst under arrest by #MetPolice, who did not take him to hospital and told him to "stop acting up" before he suffered a cardiac arrest.

The inquest into #IanTaylor's death finished yesterday:

https://t.co/Tr3nypPnSd

#music #musician murdered by #MetPolice

Met officer filmed dismissing dying man faces police watchdog inquiry

#IanTaylor, 54, #reggae musician, asthmatic, was recorded by police body-cameras repeatedly telling officers he could not breathe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61523026

#ACAB

Not really interested in getting these stories from the BBC, but this is where I found the story

RT @MavTechnolgy@twitter.com: “Bugger the boxing pour the concrete anyway” #MissionStatementGoal @ALGIMInc@twitter.com #ALGIM18 #IanTaylor #AnimationResearch