13 Mar 2024

Protesters make voices heard outside seabed mining hearing

From Checkpoint, 5:31 pm on 13 March 2024

Protesters made their feelings clear today outside a hearing reconsidering an application to mine the seabed in the Taranaki Bight.

The Environmental Protection Authority is revisiting Trans-Tasman Resources bid for consents to suck up 50 million tonnes of ironsands a year for 30 years off the coast of Patea.

Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has been in Hawera for the hearing.