“The Tai Poutini Plan is highly enabling of extractive industries and a number of councillors may have conflicts of interests – declared or undeclared,” they say. In a letter to the minister the residents say they have concerns about the capacity of local councils to impartially process the consent. The group says the proposed mining method will cause significant and irreversible damage to the environment and threaten a taonga species – the tāiko, or Westland petrel. The Coast Road Resilience Group has appealed to the Minister for the Environment to “call in” the application. Locals, meanwhile, are gearing up for another bid to have the decision-making taken out of council hands.
TiGa Minerals is having a second crack at winning approval to unearth and process rare minerals on farmland between the sea and scenic State Highway 6 on the South Island’s West Coast. It’s David v Goliath round two – and back to the cake stalls – for a West Coast community trying to stop a sand-mining venture on the Barrytown Flats
News Line in the sand between locals and miners
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