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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (33201)2/18/2007 2:16:41 PM
From: roto   of 78416
 
a few years ago I spent some time in New Zealand. it was just after the French sunk the Rainbow Warrior and the Kiwi's reaction to their state of affairs in the world became Green. the disturbing thing at that time was on visit to Russell in the North Island, the Japanese were allowed to commercially harvest a lot of coastal bill fish & the Saudi's wanted to buy some South Island (around Greysmouth I think) glacier fresh- water run off (w/ a guarantee of a half dozen jobs, whoopee!). I do not know what is the current political clime in New Zealand but I only hope it is not politically condensing to foreign demands. in a visit to Costa Rico just a year later I was amazed at the Costa Rican approach to natural resources management. they were using the satellite system EOS to monitor their land mass activity, the threat being 'slash & burn' logging to favor cattle grazing...the culprit being large corporations such as McDonalds trying to save 1/2c per lb of burger, wherever that can be had. also, foreign commercial fleets were not allowed to harvest any fish on their coast & needless to say the sport fishing is excellent! what got my attention was the Costa Ricans express intent to save for posterity 1/4 to 1/3 of their land mass, not allowing any commercial development whatsoever. this radical idea I found extremely appealing in that this little nation of Costa Rica has such a vision of the future it puts our greed to shame. I only hope they stayed the course.
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