Opponents Ready For New Seabed Mining Bout

A Taranaki environmentalist says the Australian-owned Transtasman Resources will seemingly stop at nothing to get its hands on rare earth minerals off the region’s coast.

The Environment Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera tomorrow for the first of three hearings to reconsider an application for a 20-year consent to mine and process iron sand from the seabed off south Taranaki.

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