Source: stuff.co.nz
Author: Liam Hyslop
Phosphate mining should not be allowed on the Chatham Rise as it will damage marine environments, environment groups say. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started calling final submissions at its hearing over the application by Chatham Rock Phosphate (CRP) to mine phosphates off New Zealand’s coast.
Continue reading Chatham mining will ‘destroy’ rare seabed life
Evidence submitted so far to the EPA’s hearing on a deep sea phosphate mining proposal for the Chatham Rise shows the proposal should be rejected for a number of very concerning reasons, environmental groups said today.
Continue reading EPA should reject seabed mining application say environment groups
Source: Scoop Independent News
Mining phosphate on the Chatham Rise, on New Zealand’s continental shelf, could potentially have many impacts on marine mammals like whales and dolphins, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) was told today.
Continue reading Chatham Rise mining could have impacts on whales, dolphins, EPA told
Wellington — Mining phosphate from the seabed of the Chatham Rise would remove a protected coral species crucial to the local ecosystem, an Environmental Protection Agency hearing into a seabed mining proposal was told this morning.
Continue reading Protected corals could be wiped out by deep sea phosphate mining, hearing told
Wellington – The EPA began hearings today in Wellington on Chatham Rock Phosphate’s (CRP) application to mine 5000 square kms of the seabed on the Chatham Rise, in the waters off the New Zealand’s east coast.
Continue reading Chatham Rise Seabed Mining hearing begins: NGOs join forces to oppose
Source: Stuff.co.nz
Author: Patrick Smellie
Attack is rarely the best form of defence for a company seeking both social and environmental licence to operate.
Source: Pacific Islands News Association
Interviewer: Brian Abbott
Interviewee: Phil McCabe, Chairman, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority has torpedoed a proposal for the first seabed mining venture off the coast of Taranaki. Trans Tasman Resources had proposed mining for iron ore 22 kilometres off the coast.
Continue reading NZ no to seabed mining a cautionary tale for the Pacific
Source: Scoop Politics, Independent News
Author: Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The EPA’s decision to decline a proposal to mine black sand from the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight was heralded today by New Zealand’s only NGO focusing solely on the issue, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining.
Continue reading Slap Down to Seabed Mining “Victory for common sense”
