Watchdog Gets Kick in the Face for Christmas
We accept losing but we do not accept that voluntary groups acting in the public interest should be punished with costs.
We accept losing but we do not accept that voluntary groups acting in the public interest should be punished with costs.
Oceana Gold has quietly released their plan to build a 6.8km tunnel under primarily high value conservation land at Wharekirauponga, an area of dense native bush habitat, home to the world’s most endangered frog, Archey’s frogs, in the Coromandel Forest Park, above Parakiwai at Whangamata. This area of the Forest Park is highly regarded by…
Quick update about what’s been happening…
We are calling on the new Government to place an immediate moratorium on accepting or granting any prospecting, exploration or mining permits on, in or under public conservation land in Aotearoa New Zealand, including stewardship land. The Government has failed to implement the policy they announced in the 2017 Speech from the Throne to stop new mines on conservation land, and as…
The High Court has ruled against our application for a Judicial Review of Ministers Parker and Robertson decision to allow Oceana Gold to build a new toxic waste tailings dam at Waihi. “Of course we are disappointed in this decision but we are proud we challenged the Labour Ministers for their failure to protect our…
Friday, 7 August 2020, 8:35 amPress Release: Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki says the Government has utterly betrayed the public by allowing MBIE to grant a 40 year mining permit to Oceana Gold on Dept of Conservation land at Wharekirauponga near Whangamata this week. ” It is appalling that this has Government broken…
Yesterday’s announcement of a new open cast mine in Waihi failed to mention the fourth mine that Oceana plan, a mine in Public Conservation (DOC) land behind Whangamata, says Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki. While Oceana Gold announced ‘Project Quattro’, the expansion of mining in Waihi, they also released a Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Waihi…
Coromandel Watchdog is disappointed to learn that multinational gold miner OceanaGold not only wants to build another toxic dump site in Waihi, they also want to put another huge hole in it. While we fully acknowledges the needs of Waihi’s community to access employment, expansion of the existing mine is obviously not the best way….
The chair of Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki on why she’s determined to stop a new mine waste dump near Waihi on the Coromandel peninsula. Just outside the town of Waihi there are two enormous artificial mountains of toxic waste from gold mining. Now the multinational mining company wants to buy more land and build another one,…
While some may accuse those of us who have some concern for the environment in all of this of being ‘anti development’, we are far from it. In fact, we have long been advocating for Govt to support the establishment of urban mining (mining tech waste).
