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I seek leave to table seven documents related to question No. 1. The first document is a World Bank report entitled Estimating National Wealth, which the Minister of Energy and Resources had referred to in his speech. The report is dated January 1998, and shows that New Zealand’s conservation lands are essential to our national wealth.
Mr SPEAKERI seek leave of the House to table an appendix from a similar but more recent World Bank report, called Where is the Wealth of Nations, dated 2006, which again shows that New Zealand’s conservation lands are essential to our natural wealth.
I seek leave to table a photograph of the Stockton coalmine, which the Minister used as an example of responsible mining. The photograph is dated January 2009, and shows the destruction of native bush and mountains—
I seek leave to table copies of the Green Party petition Save Our Treasured Places, with 150 signatures having already been gained in just a few days.
Leave is sought to table that document. Just to clarify it for the House, I understand that the petition has not yet been presented?
It is a petition for which signatures are being collected. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is none.
I seek leave to table an official list of the high-value conservation places contained in schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act compiled by the Minister of Conservation, dated 16 September 2009—today—and listing nearly 400 conservation places at risk of mining.
Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? [ Interruption] This is a bit unusual. Could the member make clear for me exactly what the document is.
The document is a list compiled by the office of the Minister of Conservation of 400 conservation places that are at risk of mining, and are in the categories contained in schedule 4—
With your permission, Mr Speaker, because it did take the Parliamentary Library some time to locate this document, I seek leave to table debate in the House on 19 November 1997, when the then National Government created schedule 4 to protect some areas of the conservation estate from mining—places that the Government is now investigating for the purposes of mining.
I seek leave to table an Internet notice of the Government’s 2009 Conservation Week, which began on 13 September and ends at the end of this week, with the theme of “Get involved and who knows?”.