Crown Minerals Act Purpose Changed – at last.
We have, since 2013 when the then national Government changed it, campaigned to have to Purpose of the Crown Minerals Act changed from an Act… Read More »Crown Minerals Act Purpose Changed – at last.
Coromandel No Mining
Watchdog Gets Kick in the Face for Christmas
We accept losing but we do not accept that voluntary groups acting in the public interest should be punished with costs.
Mining By Stealth in Coromandel Forest Park
Oceana Gold has quietly released their plan to build a 6.8km tunnel under primarily high value conservation land at Wharekirauponga, an area of dense native… Read More »Mining By Stealth in Coromandel Forest Park
Watchdog Loses High Court Judicial Review on Mining but Will Keep Fighting
The High Court has ruled against our application for a Judicial Review of Ministers Parker and Robertson decision to allow Oceana Gold to build a… Read More »Watchdog Loses High Court Judicial Review on Mining but Will Keep Fighting
New Minerals Strategy Out – and it’s not good…
The new Government Minerals and Petroleum Strategy is ‘backward and disappointing’. It is a lost opportunity to shift the focus away from the conventional mining… Read More »New Minerals Strategy Out – and it’s not good…
Select Committee has failed the Coromandel
The Committee has, nearly two years after receiving our petition, decided not to support the extension of Schedule 4 to include the Southern Coromandel. The… Read More »Select Committee has failed the Coromandel
Conservationists arrested on Conservation land at Karangahake
Local people from Karangahake and other parts of the Hauraki/Coromandel challenged miners from the 2018 AusIMM (Australia Institute of Metallurgy and Mining) NZ Branch Annual… Read More »Conservationists arrested on Conservation land at Karangahake