The terrifying beauty of the ocean 🧵 1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff

We are going to pay for the bad decision making enforced by Fast track law, we are going to pay for loss of tangata whenua and public voices, dictating development always has an enviro and social price - we are going to pay !

Mining on Public Conservation Land should never be fasttracked. It should be carefully considered and all factors weighed up - including what the community affected wants. This Fasttrack of major inter generational developments is definitely not the right way, nor the kiwi way!

Trans-Tasman Resources has just been given the go ahead under the Fast-Track legislation to start seabed mining off the Taranaki coast. We say NO WAY! Haere atu TTR. The community is united in our opposition to the destruction of the moana. Together, we will stop you.

PRESS RELEASE: KASM slams government for putting seabed mining on its fast-track list kasm.org.nz/post/kasm-slam…

How is gold mining public interest? How is losing nationally significant conservation land in the public interest? beehive.govt.nz/release/fast-t…

Jeremy Carroll Marnie Prickett Many of these are going to end up like pine forestry in Tairawhiti - regretted by the local population for generations to come for their destruction and failure to deliver economic benefits. I have no idea why TTR are so desperate to mine these low value ironsands, for starters.

Interesting to hear TTR's Alan Eggers blatantly lying to RNZ News - we thought the media's role was to call out lies, not just run them & then get "balance" from the "other side" in very basic he-said-she-said journalism. This is not useful for public & very lazy journalism

“This project will not bring in economic benefits either to the region or the country. It will leave us in a great big mess. "They don't even know how to get the critical mineral out of the iron sands - they haven't even got a process for how to do that.” rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

... the [fast-track] expert panel won't hear expert advice that for blue whales in the South Taranaki Bight, the mining will be like “living next to a vacuum cleaner for 35 years” thepress.co.nz/politics/35044…

This sums up our government. A renewable project pulls out of the country because the government believes you can have seabed mining and offshore wind. You can't: they've said this, but have been ignored. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/24/off…

Plans for offshore wind energy projects cancelled by investors after #NZ Govt puts controversial seabed mining project in #fasttrack law; concern is that it “could shrink or completely eliminate area available for offshore wind in Sth Taranaki”. Big loss newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/24/off…

#BREAKING Australian mining company Manuka Resources has had to abandon its AGM today after an intervention by representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui affirming their opposition to Manuka subsidiary Trans-Tasman Resources seabed mining in Taranaki. greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press…

Today in Sydney, representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, along with six Greenpeace activists, have disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources, the Australian mining company planning to fast-track seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight. Rukutai Watene of

Great action by Ngati Ruanui and Greenpeace Aotearoa, who shut down Manuka Resources AGM in Sydney today. Manuka is the 100% Australian owner of wannabe seabed miners Trans Tasman Resources. greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press…

PRESS RELEASE: The government has thrown more fast-track bricks through the glasshouse of democracy today, publishing redacted documents abt projects proposed by privately owned offshore companies, only AFTER the scrutiny of a second reading in Parliament. bit.ly/KASM_16Dec