sheepshagger96

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   by sheepshagger96 5y ago

   They financed the construction of the dam and helped make NZ more relevant when it was even more of an insignificant island that it is now, they've provided stable, high paying jobs for a whole region for decades (when meatworks were c
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   by sheepshagger96 5y ago

   But people will be directly employed by said company and that will have knock on effects locally, would you rather not exploit your mineral wealth?
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   by sheepshagger96 5y ago

   This is an incredibly naive and ill-informed view of the value Tiwai brings to parts of NZ, especially Southland. As for the Dross, they had sold that to a company which went bankrupt before it could turn it into fertiliser.