{"id":71968,"date":"2025-05-26T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/26\/new-zealand-resources-minister-shane-jones-mining-environment"},"modified":"2025-05-26T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:36:18","slug":"new-zealand-will-not-be-guilt-tripped-over-environment-resources-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71968","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand will not be \u2018guilt-tripped\u2019 over environment, resources minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Jones is unapologetic about his plan to double mineral exports to $3bn over the next decade despite criticism over potential environmental impacts<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s minister for resources, Shane Jones, said he will not be guilt-tripped by \u201capocalyptic images\u201d of mining and its effects on the environment put forward by his critics, as he embarks on a major mining push.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, a member of the minor populist coalition party New Zealand First, wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/major-milestone-reached-launch-minerals-strategy-and-critical-minerals-list\">double mineral exports to $3bn over the next decade<\/a>, to boost economic growth and minimise the country\u2019s reliance on imported resources, even if it results in environmental trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/26\/new-zealand-resources-minister-shane-jones-mining-environment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Jones is unapologetic about his plan to double mineral exports to $3bn over the next decade despite criticism over potential environmental impactsNew Zealand\u2019s minister for resources, Shane Jones, said he will not be guilt-tripped by \u201capocalyptic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,973,65,730,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biodiversity","category-environment","category-mining","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968\/revisions\/71969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}