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Watchdog Calls On PM And Conservation Minister To Protect Conservation Land
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 12:40 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is today sending an Open Letter of more than 3100 people to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Conservation calling on them to “stop the tail wagging the dog” and rein in the Minister of Resources and to ... More >>
NZ First Coalition Gain a Threat to the Environment and Public Participation
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 2:12 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
The NZ First has already threatened the environment and communities with their “fast track” law change plan that will give Ministers unilateral powers to issue mining consents without public processes, says Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki spokesperson ... More >>
Luxon Will Support Mining Conservation Land
Monday, 13 November 2023, 12:11 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
The environmental protection group Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki says the Prime Minister elect has announced he supports mining on public conservation land. “ This morning on Morning Report Chris Luxon said he would support “sensitive mining”, ... More >>
Labour Kills Green Members Bill On Mining
Friday, 23 September 2022, 11:17 am | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki are furious that Labour have announced they will not support the Green Member Eugenie Sage’s Bill which would have advanced Labour’s own mining policy. “It’s ridiculous that Labour wouldn’t allow the “Crown ... More >>
Government Response To Mining Moratorium Call Incoherent
Sunday, 4 September 2022, 1:22 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
The Government has responded to the petition calling for a moratorium on mining on conservation land in an incoherent and illogical manner according to Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki spokesperson Catherine Delahunty. “Last Wednesday when we took ... More >>
Mining By Stealth On DOC Land
Monday, 30 November 2020, 3:54 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
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 bush habitat, home to the world's most endangered frog, Archey's frogs, in the Coromandel Forest ... More >>
Miners Announce New Waihi Pit But Downplay DOC Land Mining Plan
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 5:10 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Yesterday’s announcement of a new open cast mine in Waihi failed to mention the fourth mine that Oceana plan, a mine in Public Conservation (DOC) land behind Whangamata, says Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki. While Oceana Gold announced 'Project Quattro', ... More >>
Compounding The Toxic Legacy Of Gold Mining: Another Huge Hole In The Heart Of Waihi
Friday, 17 July 2020, 2:59 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog is disappointed to learn that multinational gold miner OceanaGold not only wants to build another toxic dump site in Waihi, they also want to put another huge hole in it. While Watchdog fully acknowledges the needs of Waihi's community ... More >>
Government Excuses For Inaction On Mining Not Working
Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 7:20 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki rejects the Government’s excuses for inaction on toxic mining and their failure to honour their promise to ban mining on DOC land in the 2017 Speech from the Throne. “ While the pro mining lobby in Labour and ... More >>
Government Fails Conservation Land
Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 2:33 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
The Government has betrayed Conservation Land in going back on its pronouncement that it would allow No New Mines on Conservation land. Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is disgusted. "This is a complete failure on the part of our Government. ... More >>
Judicial Review of Ministers for Mining Decision
Sunday, 2 February 2020, 11:36 am | Coromandel Watchdog
The community group Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is taking Government Minister David Parker and Grant Robertson to Judicial Review for their decision to allow Oceana Gold to buy a block of farm land at Waihi for a new toxic mine waste dump. The Oceana ... More >>
Reefton gold mine subsidy undermines DOC land
Sunday, 15 December 2019, 11:59 am | Coromandel Watchdog
The Provincial Growth Fund giving $13 million to a gold mining project under DOC land on the West Coast is a disgraceful waste of public money says Coromandel Watchdog, a group fighting gold mining in Hauraki. More >>
Coromandel Watchdog Plans Judicial Review proceedings
Monday, 14 October 2019, 9:08 am | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is getting legal advice as they scope filing a Judicial Review against the decision made by Ministers David Parker and Grant Robertson to approve land being used for a new tailings dump at Waihi. More >>
Dam annoucement sabotages environment and due process
Tuesday, 8 October 2019, 12:10 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is disgusted by the granting of a ‘ new application” from Oceana Gold for a tailings dump on productive farm land at Waihi, More >>
Coromandel Locals Protest New Talisman AGM
Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 9:28 am | Coromandel Watchdog
Local people from the Karangahake Gorge and the 'Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki' group are holding a rally outside the AGM of the New Talisman Mining company at the Pullmans Hotel, Waterloo Quadrant in central Auckland from 9.30am today. More >>
Minerals Strategy Backward and Disappointing
Wednesday, 28 August 2019, 9:41 am | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki, a group with 40 years’ experience challenging gold mining, is describing the new Government Minerals and Petroleum Strategy as ‘backward and disappointing'. More >>
Select Committee Fails Coromandel Petitioners
Monday, 29 July 2019, 2:58 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki say the Select Committee has failed the Coromandel; the Committee has, nearly two years after receiving their petition, decided not to support the extension of Schedule 4 to include the Southern Coromandel. The extension ... More >>
Coromandel Watchdog Opposes Oceana Gold Judicial Review
Friday, 7 June 2019, 11:08 am | Coromandel Watchdog
The community group opposing large scale mining in Hauraki/Coromandel, Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki, is opposing the Oceana Gold application for a Judicial Review of the Minister of Land Information's decision to reject their purchase of rural ... More >>
Coromandel Watchdog Challenges Government to Honour Promises
Sunday, 12 May 2019, 3:50 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is furious that the Government’s failure to implement protections that have been promised by one or more of the coalition partners for years has resulted in a mining application being lodged against prime Coromandel ... More >>
No Place for Tailings
Friday, 3 May 2019, 6:58 pm | Coromandel Watchdog
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki welcomes decision by Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage to decline an application by Oceana Gold to purchase an area of rural land for a new tailings dam. More >>
