20-year fight continues at Pakiri Hall
Olivia Haddon presents images of the seafloor from 1995.
Pakiri’s Olivia Haddon said she was continuing the fight her father Laly Haddon started when she appeared before commissioners at Pakiri Hall on May 10, asking them to decline Kaipara’s application.
Ms Haddon said when the last consent was granted, it was ruled that the kaitiaki role of her family should be provided for and the family should be involved with monitoring.
“My father was unable to stop the sand mining, but ensured a relationship of consultation and partnership,” she said.
However, she said this relationship had failed in recent years, and that Kaipara Ltd had since contracted McCallum Bros to undertake its extraction.
Pakiri sand mining gouging trenches in sea floor, locals and iwi opposing consent renewal
30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores
A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores Locals, iwi and elected officials are furious that a company heading a sand mining operation off the Pakiri coastline, which gouged almost 3-metre deep trenches in the sea floor and allegedly committed multiple resource consent