PROTECT OUR PRECIOUS COROMANDEL/HAURAKI - SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST MINING ON CONSERVATION LAND
The comments made by a mining industry representative on RNZ last week promoting Oceana Gold‘s proposal to mine conservation land at Wharekirauponga were inaccurate and disrespectful of local efforts to control pests. Patrick Phelps, a representative of the West Coast Minerals Forum speaking for Oceana, said mining should be allowed to occur in this nationally…
We are welcoming the new Green Party campaign to get a Government commitment to no new mines on Department of Conservation land. It’s great to have at least one Party in Parliament stand up for the protection of biodiversity and challenge the Labour Government to honour the promise they made in 2017 to ban new…
We were very happy to hear that New Talisman, the Australian miner that has permits to mine DOC land at Mt Karanagahake has terminated the agreement they had to purchase the ‘Broken Hills’ hobby mine at Puketui, near Hikuai. The company has had all sorts of internal woes, with their CE getting pushed out by…
Media ReleaseSept 29 2021 Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki will protest any changes to the hobby mine inCoromandel Forest Park now that New Talisman mining has bought this operation inSchedule 4 public conservation (DOC) land. ” Schedule 4 is a no mining zone. The Puketui Mine in the DOC forest has only beenallowed to exist with a…
Things may seem like they have been all quiet on the mining front – but they haven’t! The Hauraki Coromandel is more at risk from multinational miners today than it has been since the 1980’s… We have been working hard to continue to keep the pressure on the Government to honour the promise they made…
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…
The comments made by a mining industry…
We are welcoming the new Green Party…
