There are numerous actions you can take to demonstrate your opposition to mining Shepherd’s Creek valley Bendigo and we’ll be updating those actions here.
Be inspired
Listen to this message from Helen Clark on the Bendigo fast-track mine “We are its guardians”. –
Click here. And the good folk of Sustainable Tarras (who deserve (a medal) support) have you covered. With this link you’ll find all the information you need to contact your local and national representatives AND add your name to the growing list of people saying NO to the Mine from all over Aotearoa.
Donate to fund the fight
Stop Central Otago Gold Mine: Use of funds: Awareness raising campaigns and experts who can help us unpack and critique the developer’s application, which will be thousands of pages of technical evidence covering everything from impacts to water, air, noise, the economy and more.
Support frontline campaigns & community resistance with Mountains Not Mines here: Putting People Over Profit.
No Go Bendigo – Artists Against the Fast-track mine at Bendigo – online art auction to raise “funds to assist with legal costs and expert advice and services to consolidate opposition to the proposed Bendigo-Ophir open-cast mine.” – 100 per cent of the funds raised going to Sustainable Tarras to help fight the Santana fast track mine proposal.
If you live in or near the proposed area and have a roadside spot for an opposition placard, please contact foolsgoldrd@gmail.com & we’ll gladly come and erect one. Mountains Not Mines.
AND please pop your boots on – take a friend – & spend some gentle time on the Fools Gold route & in & around this valley system. – (and record your activity on STRAVA) – Or just visit the area in your vehicle, the roads are still open- for now.
Plans don’t stop at this valley and government have indicated we’re open for unnecessary and destructive industry. Extractive industries that serve “economic systems built around continuous extraction”, (S Lezak). Extractive industries that are fundamental to the systems that create societal and environmental instability for profit – are waiting at the door.
The success or failure of the Bendigo-Ophir goldmine ‘project’ either opens that door for Central Otago, Aotearoa and our world – or it closes it shut. This is a forever door if opened.
