The recent earthquakes highlight the need for pragmatic policies on aggregates and access to urban quarry sites.
Roger Parton, Chief Executive, Aggregate and Quarry Association of New Zealand
As this article was being finalised, the earthquakes affecting Kaikoura, Marlborough, North Canterbury and even Wellington occurred with...
Councils around the country may face some 21st century risks from much earlier practices. Aggregate News editor Brendon Burns reports.
As settlers tumbled across the New Zealand landscape in the 19th century, the demand for aggregate was their ballast. Local county councils opened and operated hundreds of small quarries and gravel pits...
Aggregate & Quarry Association (AQA) chief executive Roger Parton says councils need to ensure ongoing quarry production in 2016 and watch for new health and safety requirements coming into force.
The quarry industry often puts councils between a rock and a hard place. That very rock (or river stone) that councils need for their...
