PROTECT OUR PRECIOUS COROMANDEL/HAURAKI - SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST MINING ON CONSERVATION LAND
The Government has responded to the petition calling for a moratorium on mining on conservation land in an incoherent and illogical manner. Last Wednesday when we took the petition to Parliament, the Prime Minister said that the review of stewardship land and current legal processes would protect the land. Clearly it will not as much…
Thank you to everyone who made this happen! We had a successful journey to Pōneke Wellington to deliver our petition asking the Government to place an immediate moratorium on accepting any applications for and any further processing or granting of, any prospecting, exploration or mining permits on, in or under public conservation land in Aotearoa…
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki today congratulated Green MP Eugenie Sage for her Bill, the Crown Minerals (Prohibition of Mining), being selected from the Parliamentary ballot. The Government should adopt the Bill and honour that promise to protect conservation land from mining. Watchdog has been waiting for the Crown to honour their no mining promise on…
We will fight this application by Oceana Gold to mine under public conservation forests near Whangamatā in the Courts. Oceana Gold issued a statement at the start of July that they have lodged resource consent applications to mine at Wharekirauponga with both the District and Regional councils (Hauraki and Waikato, respectively). Public submissions will be…
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.
The Government has responded to the petition…
