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…
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 new Government Minerals and Petroleum Strategy is ‘backward and disappointing’. It is a lost opportunity to shift the focus away from the conventional mining we currently allow – that compromises our environmnet – to the re use of minerals from electronic waste. We hoped the Government had moved away from the contradictory rhetoric of…
The Committee has, nearly two years after receiving our petition, decided not to support the extension of Schedule 4 to include the Southern Coromandel. The extension would protect the entire Coromandel Range (and Coromandel Ecological Region) from industrial mining, where now that protection stops at State Highway 25 Kopu Hikuai Road.We are still reviewing the…
Local people from Karangahake and other parts of the Hauraki/Coromandel challenged miners from the 2018 AusIMM (Australia Institute of Metallurgy and Mining) NZ Branch Annual Conference who went to Karangahake to promote gold mining in the area – including on Department of Conservation land. Locals and visitors peacefully protested at the New Talisman mine site…
