On Sunday November 6 a small team of Watchdog people and some tangata whenua travelled up to Manukau to protest outside the Labour Governments AGM and Conference. We had arranged to meet Forest and Bird and Greenpeace outside the venue. We parked up amidst hundreds of cars despite being questioned by security. They only got…
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…
We accept losing but we do not accept that voluntary groups acting in the public interest should be punished with costs.
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…
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,…
The Govt has let a mining company buy NZ farmland to build a toxic dump! Gold mining and its toxic ways are our history, not our future!
The community group Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is taking Government Minister David Parker and Grant Robertson to Judicial Review for their decision to allow Oceana Gold to buy a block of farm land at Waihi for a new toxic mine waste dump.
Today I went into fhe forest at Waiomu (Thames Coast) with my grandson and wandered up the river. We didn’t quite get to the kauri but had a great time in the creek. I told him the story of how we fought for that piece of land, blocking the mining helicopters on the top of…
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