Clean Country Coalition

Consents granted by GDC

Admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:24:47 +0000

GDC has granted resource consents to TAG/Apache to start their seismic survey work before exploratory drilling and subsequent fracking.

DOWNLOAD: GDC seismic survey consents for Apache/TAG/BTW

National Disgrace

Admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:07:24 +0000

Boy says Oil Spill is Stink

Admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:01:33 +0000

Flotilla Arrival – 2 April

Admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:33:58 +0000

Kia ora!

Heres the draft programme for Saturday 2 April at Whangaparaoa.
There will be an 5-6 boat flotilla arriving from Auckland. Tell everyone and please pass on details to all your networks.

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Stop the Drilling Hui
Whangaparaoa Beach, 2 April

8 am Hau Kainga arrive
9 am Karakia/ whakatau
9.30 korero and activity starts
11 am Flotilla arrives
haka powhiri /whakatau
12 pm korero and activity continues
4 pm whakaeke – at Kauaetangohia Marae
5 pm Korero and activity continues
6pm Karakia
6.30 kai
7 pm Buses depart

BYO picnic lunch, signs, flags and korero

check out: www.stopdeepseaoil.org.nz
or Te Whanau a Apanui Facebook page

The Trial of Bidder 70

Admin — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:06:20 +0000

The Trial of Tim DeChristopher from Ian Wittenber on Vimeo.

New Resources

Admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:08:15 +0000

Click this link to download the new pamphlets on Petrobras, Kwikserve & TAG Oil (fracking): Ahi Ka Pamphlets

Photest – 20/11/10

Admin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:34:08 +0000

Saturday’s Photest went well, all be it a lil down on numbers – I had hoped for more… but around 100 folks came out. (there must have been something good on TV/ or maybe it was the new Warehouse we were competing with?..)
Quality messages made up for the lack of public interest.

I will get these all printed out this week and on their way down to Gerry, and thoughts go out to the family and friends of those trapped in the mine on the West Coast. Lets hope for the best

Big thanks to everyone who came out.
Cheers,

Strike photography

Dawn Fires

Admin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:25:40 +0000

Kaiti Beach

Fires were lit on beaches from Gisborne to Whakatane this morning – Tangata Whenua and other local residents expressed their commitment to increasing opposition to the exploration for oil and gas off the East Coast.

Te Araroa

> Green Party response

> The Gisborne Herald story

Further action planned

Admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:05:16 +0000

Further action against deep sea oil and gas exploration off the East Cape is planned for the coming months says one of the organisers of a previous protest against the granting of an exploration permit in July.

Manu Caddie said the revelation this week that Crown Minerals did not take into account any environmental risk of deep sea exploration was another blow to appeals by Minister Gerry Brownlee for residents of the Gisborne District to ‘trust the process’.

“This government is putting the future of our region on the line for some quick cash. They didn’t bother to check the environmental record of Petrobras before granting the permit and then had the cheek to defend the shocking record we revealed” said Mr Caddie.

“In other words a bunch of volunteers working around the region did our homework and provided evidence that should have been done by the agency responsible for advising the Minister on this permit.”

If Petrobras gets to the third stage of what it has permission to do under the exploration permit, it will be involved in a similar operation to the drilling BP was doing when disaster struck in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.

“Why do we have a Member of Parliament when she is silent on this issue and how are we going to ensure the government does not take away the right of Gisborne DIstrict Council to give or withold consent to deep sea drilling in the waters along our coastline?”

Mr Caddie says communities around the coast are planning further opposition to the exploration deal in coming months and the minimum they want is for the Minister and Crown Minieral officials to come to the Coast to talk with concerned locals.

Concern at major Coast mining plan

Admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:14:25 +0000

EAST CAPE: This Crown Minerals map shows the area at the top of the cape proposed for open-cast mining in an application for mineral prospecting by Kwikswerv Mining Ltd.

Chimene del la Varis

CLAIMS that a private company plans to carry out open-cast land mining on the East Cape have sparked concern among Gisborne environmentalists.

The Ministry of Economic Development (MED) received an application on April 22, 2010 to prospect across 1599 square kilometres of East Cape land north of a line from Waiomatatini across to Whanarua Bay.

The area includes a mix of Crown, Conservation, Maori and privately-owned land.

Ngati Porou leaders were unable to comment on the mining proposal although the permit process is believed to be one of the issues under discussion in ongoing negotiations between the iwi and the Crown.

The Government has clashed with East Coast and Northland iwi groups over whether they were properly advised about exploration licences.

Gisborne District Council candidate Manu Caddie says the East Cape application went under the radar with submissions closing in May before local groups became aware of it.

“MED notified the permit on their website but provided no notice through local media or any other proactive measures to encourage submissions from the public on the permit application,” he says.

Mr Caddie says he has asked MED if they will still accept submissions up to July 31 before finalising their report to the Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee.

Mr Brownlee is expected to make a decision on the prospecting permit before the end of the year.

Mr Caddie has called on the Environmental Defence Society to help assess the legal and planning options available for communities wanting to make a submission on the permit.

He says Kwikswerv Mining Ltd, the company submitting the application, was incorporated in the same month that it made the application.

The company is believed to have one director Francis Zhang, who operates a scaffolding company in South Auckland from the same address as Kwikswerv Mining Ltd.

The permit is for two years and includes minerals that would require open-cast mining including; lead, zinc, bismuth, magnesium, titanium, ilmenite, silver, aluminium, tin, rutile, copper, iron, iron sand, platinum, antimony, gold, tantalum, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum and rare earths.

The claims come at a time when the Government is being criticised by Maori leaders for its failure to consult properly with iwi over onshore and offshore mining activity.

Maori Party co-leader Dr Pita Sharples says people are talking past each other.

“Mining companies say ‘we have consulted’. Government says ‘we have consulted’. And when they get down to the people, they say they haven’t been consulted. I think there are different cultures in terms of what constitutes consultation. Our way is, of course, kanohi ki te kanohi, face-to-face and sit down and explain the entire limitations.”

Dr Sharples says each iwi has rangatiratanga rights over its area and should have the right to decide whether mining can be allowed.