Media Release: Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, 10.06.13
Kia ora koutou
The movement to protect the west coast from the destructive practice of strip-mining the seabed is gaining momentum at this critical time in history. December 19th is the cutoff point for submissions against Trans Tasman Resources’ bid to mine 50million tonnes of our beautiful black sand off the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight.
People from all walks of life are making their views heard through making a submission to the EPA, the action that really counts at this stage of the game. More than 1700 people have now said no to seabed mining.
But we know there’s a lot more people who love black sands and don’t want to see seabed mining taking place.
Click here to tell the EPA you don’t want seabed mining
We’ve made it super easy on our website so please follow the link and encourage your friends and family to lend their voices to the cause also.
What else can you do?
Already made a submission? There is definitely more you can do.
If every one of you forwarded this to five friends we’d reach 10,000 people! They don’t have to be in New Zealand. Any age, any nationality, anywhere.
Also, if you’re connected to networks, please be sure to tell them about the submission period and send them the link to our submission page to advertise.
Help us in the fight to save the seabed
We’ve set up a “Givealittle” account: any contribution helps.
News and updates
A very interesting snippet in the Taranaki Daily News: despite TTR constantly Taranaki promising more jobs to South Taranaki, Trans Tasman Resources have admitted in their impacts statement that jobs will not generally be available to the Taranaki unemployed, as they’re skilled jobs.
“It is unlikely that the new jobs that will be directly created by TTR’s proposal will address the relatively high levels of unemployment in the Taranaki area because of the specialised skill levels that will be required for most of the new positions.”
Will they even go to New Zealanders, is our question?
Individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change. You can be part of it.
In earnest
Phil McCabe
Chairperson
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining