Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki

And what they are up to - all for gold, obviously

There are so many miners targeting Te Tara o te Ika a Maui in 2025! Bliimin Shane Jones been pimping it out hard! Check out who is here...

and lets face it, theres stuff all that they can decline it on, given how the law is written....

This Fast-track process is hard to follow... the Panel Convenor has decided that the application is too big to consider in the short timeframes allowed, so has added 82 days to enable consideration ofall the info so a total of 112 working days ...

Undermining Our Democracy How our Government is Fast-Tracking a Canadian Mining Company's plans to dig a motorway sized tunnel under a native forest. (Duration 6 mins) 10/6/2025

This is a great snapshot from Bryan on what we are facing under the Fasttrack right now...

Undermining Our Democracy open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

Have you signed yet? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

#Aotearoa #Environmnet #2Preciouc2lose

Here's a few of our thoughts on todays RMA announcements:
www.watchdog.org.nz/government-b...

“When we criticise the system, we’re not attacking individuals, we’re challenging the rules that let 3% hoard the wealth while everyone else gets squeezed. Often people overidentify with the system, they think an attack on the govt is an attack on them. It’s not. It’s a defence of the 97%”-RW
#NZpol

#WarOnNature #NotOurFuture

Aotearoa is being backed into a corner where we are supposed to be grateful for the abuse these companies dish out.
It's just not right.
It's just not.

They are creating a system where we are expected to look to destructive industries like mining to (give us peanuts) to fund predator control, to research and support internationally significant threatened native species, to create (unsustainable) jobs.

This is a dark time for Aotearoa, and for our environment; we have a Government that has happily put money before anything - before the environment, before community.

*Oceanas

So, everyone has been super happy to use the Archey's frog to highlight the horrible rhetoric of this Government. Now y'all need to help us stand up for it - Oceans application is live in the Fasttrack - and us and the frog need all the help we can get!!! #2precious2mine #FriendsofFreddy

Presumably you just drop the word 'no'.

And here it comes.... OGLs Fast-track application to mine nationally significant conservation land and build more toxic tailings dams is public... tell us your thoughts!
WARNING: it's a whopper!
www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...

Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areas

We must not allow development to be promoted over our unique and all too threatened species!

Add you name to our petition now! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

As our native species continue to struggle, the Government has just weakened the Wildlife Act in favour of development! Please sign our petition calling for urgent action on this - we need to strengthen our protections, not weaken them!

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

This Government has weakened the Wildlife Act and basically told the courts to take a hike, throwing our native species straight into the path of destruction.
It's a terrifying blow for the future of our unique wildlife - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

“The donations from the mining industry do not have any impact whatsoever on the changes to the Wildlife Act....” Shane Jones
Just curious, who was alleging that?? NZ First took $14k from Clayton Cosgrove who works for Oceana Gold..

“The donations from the mining industry do not have any impact whatsoever on the changes to the Wildlife Act....” Shane Jones
Just curious, who was alleging that?? NZ First took $14k from Clayton Cosgrove who works for Oceana Gold..

habitat disturbance (those frogs aren't the only thing up there) and fragmentation, the toxic legacy that gold mining leaves and creates, the social impacts of reliance on boom and bust industry, the downstream effects...... etc

I can clarify that we are concerned about a lot more than *just8 the tiny 200million year old frog Mr Jones is so hung up on! There are a range of concerns: impacts on water, on the forest from dewatering in a time of climate crisis and increasing droughts,

You’ll soon be able to read the full story of how this toxic legacy came to be in our forthcoming book, The Price of Gold!

www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-pr...

We are at Stage 3.... should be seeing the application - all 11,000 odd pages of it, uploaded tomorrow or Thurs!

Read more here: www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...

Stink NEWS: Oceana Golds application to mine in DOC land, to build new toxic waste dumps, to dig another pit etc has now been accepted into the Fast-track process...

Oceana Gold submitted their substantive application last month - it was returned as 'incomplete' and as yet they have not reapplied. When they do, it could all move very fast - and all without any public input at all. Here is a brief overview of the process it will follow:

Today we celebrate the beautiful corner of the earth that we are lucky enough to live in, and we acknowledge our responsibility to do all we can to ensure it doesn't get destroyed by gold mining! Happy Earth Day Te Tara o te Ika a Māui!