In a statement, Greenpeace oceans campaigner Jessica Desmond said a legislative ban is needed to ensure the long term health of the ocean. “TTR has been vying to access the South Taranaki seabed for years, where they want to suck up a 66 square kilometre area for thirty years.” “Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui, the trustees of Te Kaahui Rauru, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, Greenpeace and other concerned groups have been holding them off so far, but we need legislation to keep the door shut on them, and others like them who will come knocking.”
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Protestors from Ngāti Ruanui during a protest in Parliament grounds, in 2016. The iwi has led a fight for six years against plans to mine the seabed of the South Taranaki coast (file photo).
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 10:11 am
Tuesday, 20 April 2021: Greenpeace has
today launched
a new petition calling on the New Zealand Government to
ban seabed mining from the waters of Aotearoa.
The
petition calls on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to give New
Zealand another world first, and ban the emerging industry
that poses risks to the ocean and climate.
For years,
iwi, environmentalists and communities in Aotearoa have been
holding back the world’s first at-scale seabed mine from
opening off the coast of Taranaki. They have fought to keep
mining company Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) from getting
access to the South Taranaki Bight - a blue whale, māui
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