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The AQA’s second Rock our Future School Competition has seen primary schools in Waikato and Manawatū take away the prizes.
Veteran quarry industry manager and consultant George William Cunningham - Geo - passed away on Wednesday aged 84 in Matamata.
A Palmerston North primary school and also one in Waikato have taken away the prizes in a national competition centred on turning a former quarry into a community asset.
A Cambridge primary school and one in Palmerston North have taken away the prizes in a national competition centred on turning a former quarry into a community asset.
New regulations which halt work near any land that gets wet will push already short supplies of rock, gravel and sand into a crisis situation, drive up prices and put the delivery of shovel-ready projects at risk.
The national quarry organisation says it hopes that the delays and cost blow-out for Transmission Gully may finally see a change in Government and council planning for major projects.
Successive governments have failed to plan where quarried materials will come from for New Zealand roads and buildings. Unless rapidly addressed, Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says all the promises of infrastructure being key to the COVID-19 response, will be delayed and cost taxpayers dearly.
AQA has release a Policy Briefing ahead of this years September Election.
Annual Return of Industrial Rocks and Minerals Output 2019 (Quarry Survey) The information collected by NZP&M is the only reliable data on aggregate production and is critical in our discussions with Government over sector issues.We encourage everyone, whether operating under permit or not to supply this information so that the Government stay well informed on the importance of our sector.