While Shane Jones and his mates are keen to ignore public opinion and fast-track the worst possible mining projects, not everyone is on board with large scale environmental destruction.
Australian company Santana expects the Luxon coalition to ignore environmentalists. They've only been paying lip service to consultation and had requested a fast-track decision be made within just 30 days.
"Not so fast!" say DOC, the ORC, the CODC and the local rūnaka who have all submitted to the fast-track panel convenor, panning the fast-track proposal.
The good guys have joined the conversation.