Every year, the Crown pays to treat pre-2017 acid mine drainage at Stockton coal mine. Every year, the Crown also collects a royalty on all coal mined in NZ.

It costs the Crown more to treat this one mine than it collects from all coal operations.

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A look at 84 official advice documents from govt’s first year shows the majority had time or data constraints. MOJ was a total wash, 6/6 having both constraints. Last govt wasn’t perfect either, but this marks a change - especially wrt timeframes

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