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TTR Abandons Seabed Mining Application, KASM Labels It A Cowardly Move To Get Onto Fast-track
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 4:38 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Kiwis Against Seabed mining today slammed Australian owned would-be seabed miner Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) for abandoning its application to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight. The company ... More >>
Government's "deliberate Misinterpretation" Of Seabed Mining Bill Frustrating
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 6:26 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The government has today deliberately misinterpreted a draft bill aimed at banning seabed mining for minerals, failing the tens of thousands who have opposed the destructive industry entering New Zealand waters, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining said today. The ... More >>
Government Punt Seabed Mining, Failing Communities And The Ocean
Friday, 5 May 2023, 12:47 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The government's move to appoint a select committee inquiry into seabed mining is disappointing and unnecessary, given the wealth of experience it’s had over three failed seabed mining applications and three court cases, said Kiwis Against Seabed ... More >>
This Is The End Of Seabed Mining In Aotearoa NZ
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 1:50 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling against a seabed mining consent today, there is nothing standing in the way of the Government moving to ban the experimental industry from New Zealand waters, said Kiwis Against Seabed Mining. The Supreme Court ... More >>
NGO's Welcome Australia's Northern Territory Ban On Seabed Mining
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 2:58 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, and other NGO's in the region welcome the Northen Territory's imminent ban on seabed mining, after a nine year campaign. Cindy Baxter, Chair, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, said, "This political decision by the Northern Territory ... More >>
Final Battle To Prevent South Taranaki Bight Seabed Mine Hits Supreme Court
Monday, 16 November 2020, 4:12 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) and Greenpeace will be in the Supreme Court today for the last battle in a long fight to oppose a seabed mine in the South Taranaki Bight. The groups are appearing, alongside iwi, other environmental groups and fishing ... More >>
Victory For The Ocean: Court Rules Protecting The Environment Is A Bottom Line
Friday, 3 April 2020, 4:10 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
3 April 2020 -- Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) and Greenpeace today hailed the decision by the New Zealand Court of Appeal denying Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) permission to mine the South Taranaki Bight as a victory for the oceans. ... More >>
Whanganui doctor completes massive swim for the ocean
Monday, 1 April 2019, 9:18 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Whanganui doctor Athol Steward and his son Lloyd yesterday completed the last leg of their three-stage swim for the ocean - swimming 23km from Patea River to Whanganui in around eight hours, to raise money to defend the South Taranaki Bight from seabed ... More >>
Celebrations as High Court upholds seabed mining appeal
Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 5:06 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining and Greenpeace today heralded the High Court’s decision to uphold their appeal against the Environmental Protection Agency’s granting of a consent to Trans Tasman Resources to mine the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight, ... More >>
Seabed mining policies largely unclear in election campaign
Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 11:44 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The idea of setting up a marine mammal sanctuary in the South Taranaki Bight was today welcomed by Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, who have also been calling for a moratorium on the destructive practice in New Zealand. “Scientists are just confirming now ... More >>
Setting the record straight on seabed mining decision
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 12:31 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
In the wake of the EPA’s decision to grant a marine licence to a company to dig up 50 million tonnes of the South Taranaki Bight seabed every year for 35 years, there have already been a number of factually inaccurate statements made by both ... More >>
EPA must again refuse seabed mining application
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 11:44 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Wellington - 25 May 2017 - Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) had failed to provide the information on the impacts of seabed mining that the EPA used as a basis for refusing the company’s first application in 2014, so there was no choice but to again refuse ... More >>
Seabed mining hearing has “gone off the rails”
Monday, 24 April 2017, 11:27 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The Environmental Protection Authority’s hearings on a seabed mining application have “gone off the rails,” environmental groups Kiwis Against Seabed Mining and Greenpeace have told the EPA. The EPA has requested a wide range of new information ... More >>
Extraordinary footage of blue whales in South Taranaki Bight
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 11:01 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
NEWPORT, Ore. – Blue whales didn’t become the largest animals ever to live on Earth by being dainty eaters and new video captured by scientists at Oregon State University shows just how they pick and choose their meals. More >>
Seabed mining hearings open in Wellington
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 10:22 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
15 February 2017-- When seabed mining hearings open in Wellington tomorrow, the strength of opposition will be apparent to the Environmental Protection Authority, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) said today. The EPA is hearing a renewed application ... More >>
Record numbers of submissions against seabed mining
Monday, 12 December 2016, 3:14 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
On the final day of public submissions on a seabed mining application in the South Taranaki Bight, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) said a record number of people had voiced their opposition to the proposal. Submissions to the EPA on Trans Tasman ... More >>
KASM challenges seabed mining secrecy in Environment Court
Monday, 7 November 2016, 9:09 am | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Today, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM), with the support of Ngāti Ruanui and Talleys Fisheries Group, will be asking the Environment Court to rule that seabed mining company Trans Tasman Resources (TTR), make public all of the information in ... More >>
KASM launches speaking tour of North Island west coast
Monday, 12 September 2016, 2:09 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
With the news that a mining company is making another bid to mine black sand off the seabed, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining is kicking off a series of public meetings down the North Island’s west coast to raise awareness around the issue. More >>
Coastal communities vow to fight seabed mining – again
Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 12:53 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Coastal communities are preparing to fight a new application to mine the seabed, lodged with the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining said today. Trans Tasman Resources (TTR), whose 2013 bid to mine ironsands from the ... More >>
Government proposals on Marine Protection fall short
Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 4:05 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The Government’s proposed Marine Protection Act would do more for the mining industry than it would for the actual protection for the marine environment, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining said today. The West Coast based environmental group questions the ... More >>