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Government Response to Mining Moratorium Call Incoherent

September 4, 2022

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…

OIA Shows Mining Company A Risk to Rare Frogs

August 10, 2018

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An Official Information Act request by Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki shows that Oceana Gold have been trying to put more rare Archey’s frogs at risk on Department of Conservation land in the southern Coromandel. The OIA shows that Oceana Gold had approached the Department of Conservation to propose a variation to their Access Arrangement that…