Prosser RichardRICHARD PROSSER (NZ First): I am very pleased to rise on behalf of New Zealand First and on behalf of my colleague Denis O'Rourke to take a call in this first reading of the Crown Minerals (Protection of World Heritage Sites) Amendment Bill.New Zealand First will not be supporting this bill. It is not because we do not believe in and support the environment of this beautiful country that we call home; it is in fact because we do. I want to begin by echoing some of the sentiments of my fellow Waimakariri-based MP—in fact my MP—Mr Matt Doocey who mentioned the very very passionate speech by Ms Pugh in support of the Hon Damien O'Connor's constituents. I am sure that Damien O'Connor has similar sentiments. I do hope that during the course of this bill's passage through this House however long that might be he has an opportunity to express those sentiments in support of his constituents because I am sure that he does agree with many of them.What this bill comes down to is not about extraction versus anything else. It is about extraction done in a sensible way. We live in a country and in an economy that relies on the extractive industries. It relies on mining it relies on forestry and it relies on primary industries. Everything around us is a reflection of that. The timber in this House is rimu milled from the forests on the West Coast. This microphone—the cap around the top is made of urethane foam which is sourced from oil. This metal thing here—I do not know whether it is steel or aluminium but it comes from the mining industry. The carpet on the floor is a product of the farming industry. The seats here are leather. They come from farming as well. All of this is part of the extractive industries. All of us here today in this House we came here in cars in taxis in trains whatever made out of steel powered by fossil fuels—all of them the products of the extractive industries.We drove on roads that are made out of gravel and are sealed with bitumen which are the products of the quarrying and mining industries. This activity happens. It happens and it supports our lifestyles and our way of life and our economy. It will happen somewhere if we want to live this lifestyle whether we like it or not and whether it is in our backyard or not. We live in a part of the world that is probably the most beautiful. We have beauty for Africa in this country. This country is probably the most glorious expression of God's love for mankind that he gave us this earth to live on.When we look at this list in this bill—and it is quite a short list I can see that—Maureen Pugh: Seven words.RICHARD PROSSER: Yes seven words my colleague says. When we look at this list of the areas that are intended to be added to schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act it starts with the Kahurangi National Park and the next area is the waters and seabed of the fiords of Fiordland. It also talks about the Napier art deco historical precinct the Kerikeri Basin the Waitangi Treaty Grounds the Kermadec Islands and the Auckland volcanic field. No one in their right mind is even going to apply for let alone think about mining in Napier's art deco district. They are not going to think about mining the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. They are not going to think about the Kermadec Islands. And certainly no one in their right mind is going to go digging a mine in a volcanic field. So it all comes down to the Kahurangi—not just that but other areas that are determined to be World Heritage areas in the future by the United Nations which we actually do not have any control over.It comes down to the West Cost—the West Coast which gets the rough end of the pineapple as Ms Pugh intimated. The West Coast which supplies a great deal in the way of what goes in to build this country: the coal the gold and the timber—the extractive industries. The minerals and the products that supply the good things in life that the rest of us enjoy and that greenies and Labourites and other people in urban areas in this country who have never been there enjoy the fruits of without realising the effort the struggle and the economic contribution that the people of the West Coast make to this nation through the extractive industries.We can have both. We can have the wide open spaces we can have the pristine clean green wilderness and we can have mining as well as long as it is done properly. New Zealand First supports that being done in ways that tick all of those boxes most importantly in ways that take a proportion of the wealth—the royalties—from that extraction that comes back to the Government and send it back to that area whence it came. New Zealand First supports the environment but we cannot support this bill.