7/31/2023 0 Comments Action packerDespite having a decade to prepare scientific evidence they could not provide any, because it simply does not exist. This battle too has taken us to every court in this nation, resulting in successfully winning in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court as the applicant, Trans-Tasman Resources, continuously failed to deliver material evidence of how their proposed project would not adversely affect the ocean. Since 2011, across National-led and Labour-led governments, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngā Rauru have spearheaded the fight against seabed mining.įrom our iwi perspective, seabed mining is a violation of our kaitiakitanga and as defenders of the ecosystems we are gravely concerned about everything it will affect - this is a part of who we were and who we are, it must be protected. An application seeking to mine millions of tonnes of iron, titanium and vanadium from 66 square kilometres of seabed for 35 years in the EEZ zone, by dredging up millions of tonnes of the seafloor, extracting the mineral and dumping the unwanted sludge back into the sea, smothering the surrounding area with the sediment plume which would spread all the way down to Wellington. It’s a bill that was crafted from the experience that we have in dealing with the existing legislation and the first seabed mining application in Aotearoa. It also seeks to retrospectively withdraw existing seabed mining consents and prohibit the ability for exploration rights for seabed mining under the Crown Minerals Act. The bill aims to put in place a nationwide ban on seabed mining consents within Aotearoa’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and coastal waters governed under the Resource Management Act. This Wednesday I will be speaking to the first reading of my Member’s Bill to ban seabed mining. From our iwi perspective, seabed mining is a violation of our kaitiakitanga, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says.
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