Labour leader Chris Hipkins will be sworn in again as Prime Minister tomorrow without a formal ceremony as government coalition talks continue between the.
Jan Mallander from Pixabay
A New York appellate court has rejected the state permit given to a Sand Land sand mine in Noyack. This follows a multi-year effort to close the pit for good.
In 2019, the state Department of Environmental Conservation allowed the Sand Land Corporation to operate the mine for eight years. The permit also allowed them to mine an additional 40 feet deeper.
Environmentalists were alarmed when the permit was announced, because the state had turned the permit down a few months earlier. Officials had even ordered the mine to close within two years.
The environmentalists pointed to tests of the groundwater beneath the mine that was contaminated with pollutants.
Maiden speeches: Why do we get up in the morning, if not to change the world?
10 Feb, 2021 05:45 AM
6 minutes to read
New Greens MP Elizabeth Kerekere has written a bill for sexual diverse people. Photo / NZH
Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade
Maiden speeches are continuing to be given by the cohort of new MPs this term - on Wednesday it was the Greens Elizabeth Kerekere, Act s Brooke Van Velden and Damien Smith and Labour s Rachel Boyack and Rachel Brooking.
Elizabeth Kerekere - The Greens
With her loved ones dressed in her favourite colour - purple - looking down from Parliament s gallery Elizabeth Kerekere swore to fight for those with diverse sex characteristics.