Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 13. 12th June 1975
Mt Davy meeting
Mt Davy meeting
Campaign Against Foreign Control in Nz (Cafcinz)
Special Notice: Public Meeting on Mt. Davy.
The Campaign Against Foreign Control in New Zealand ( Cafcinz) is calling a public meeting in Christchurch on Tuesday, June 17, in the Museum Lecture Theatre, to bring to notice the details of the proposed export of Mt. Davy coal to Japan, and to discuss action to prevent it taking place.
Speakers have been invited from the Mines Department, West Coast Resources Ltd., the company planning to mine the coal, and from the University, to speak on possible uses of the coal in New Zealand. Opponents of the scheme will also be speaking.
The campaign to stop the Mt. Davy coal scheme going ahead has some urgency. The Environmental Impact Report from the company is expected in approximately two weeks. The public will then have one month to comment on the report, after which the comments and the report will be 'audited' (taking about four weeks) and then sent to the government for the final decision. So there are only ten to twelve weeks to stop the sell-out going ahead.