Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Taranaki seabed mining efforts meet grassroots resistance
4 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Debbie Ngawera-Packer at Pātea Beach, where she spent much of her childhood. Photo / Jamie Morton
NZ Herald
OPINION:
This month we are expecting a ruling from Supreme Court on the Environmental Protection Agency s (EPA) decision to grant Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) consent for seabed mining. TTR wants to mine up to 50 million tonnes of iron sand off the South Taranaki Bight each year for 35 years. It is my hope that the court will rule in our favour and we can put to rest seabed mining, a practice that would destroy ecosystems and damage our coastlines for generations to come.
Seabed mining fight taken into parliament
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WNEWS 10 03: Seabed mining fight taken into parliament
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Thursday, 11 February 2021, 2:58 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, and other NGO s in the region welcome the Northen Territory s
imminent ban on seabed mining, after a nine year campaign. Cindy Baxter, Chair, Kiwis
Against Seabed Mining, said, This political decision by the Northern Territory . More
Monday, 16 November 2020, 4:12 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) and Greenpeace will be in the Supreme Court today
for the last battle in a long fight to oppose a seabed mine in the South Taranaki
Bight. The groups are appearing, alongside iwi, other environmental groups and fishing . More
Friday, 3 April 2020, 4:10 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Whenuakura Marae upgrade to create safer SH3 access
14 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
[140121WCBRCWav04.JPG] Robina and Anne-Marie Broughton are overseeing a series of upgrades for Whenuakura Marae. Photos / Bevan Conley [140121WCBRCWav09.JPG] The cat Pamatangi is a fixture at the marae. Laurel Stowell laurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nz
Making access from SH3 to Whenuakura Marae less risky is the main aim of a $229,000 upgrade beginning this month, chairwoman Anne-Marie Broughton says.
The marae applied for Provincial Growth Fund money and also intends to replace the old, borer-ridden floor in its wharekai and add doors that will eventually connect it to the wharenui.