However, opponents to seabed mining, when confronted with expert evidence and research-based facts in the courts, turn to being activists in order to spread misinformation and unqualified statements to support their cause through disruption and community-fed misinformation. The court process to obtain mining permits has been a long and at times very arduous road; however. the end is nigh. It is expected that the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in the coming months, a judgment that will be determined on the facts presented and in accordance with the laws of the land. I am Taranaki born and bred and I love my province.
TTR wants to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed a year, every year for 35 years. That doesn’t sound like “minimal” impact to us.
Seabed mining involves dragging huge machines across the seafloor, sucking up sediment onto a ship where large magnets separate out the ten percent of minerals, then dumping the remaining 90 percent back into the ocean.
Some of that sediment goes back to the seafloor, but models show a lot drifts much further, smothering sea life, distant reefs and coral.
This proposed seabed mine would be the first of its kind anywhere in the world. They simply don’t know the extent of the effect it would have on the ocean, whatever Mr Eggers may say.
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Cindy Baxter, left, is the chairwoman for Kiwis Against Seabed Mining. Seabed mining involves dragging huge machines across the seafloor, sucking up sediment onto a ship where large magnets separate out the ten percent of minerals, then dumping the remaining 90 percent back into the ocean. Some of that sediment goes back to the seafloor, but models show a lot drifts much further, smothering sea life, distant reefs and coral. This proposed seabed mine would be the first of its kind anywhere in the world. They simply don’t know the extent of the effect it would have on the ocean, whatever Mr Eggers may say.
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.
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