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Seabed Mining
Posted by Vic Albon | First Choice, New Zealand
Proposed Seabed mining not far off Taranaki, which is situated on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
This proposal is by the company Trans Tasman Resources Limited who wish to trench mine and pump the slurried seabed floor up to a surface vessel where it is to be filtered to extract its iron content for offloading to a barge for dispatch. The remaining material is then to be dumped back on the sea floor. This activity is to take place in an area of ocean that is almost constantly turbulent often with very big swells. It is also the only home of the last remaining Maui dolphins (approximately only 55 of these unique dolphins are left in the world) so this disturbance to the sea floor will particularly affect them.
KASM (Kiwis Against Seabed Mining) are an active group opposing this proposal and they have my support.
The Environmental Protection Society will be hearing our submissions very soon - from February 2017, and I wondered if you could offer any information about the impacts of similar processes that you or your contacts may know of.
I apologise for the short notice, but I have only just discovered the great ocean protection/restoration work with which you are involved .
Many thanks
Vic Albon
Aloha Vic,
I worked over a number of years on raising awareness and protecting the NZ Maui’s dolphins. Now, their numbers are closer to 50 left globally.
Besides writing a “love letter” in 2012 to the NZ Prime Minister, who also happened to be the Environmental Minister, I took over 2,000 visual petitions that along with thousands of other “VPs” were sent into the NZ government.
Did you know that the majority of NZ fisheries are owned by the Maori tribes, especially the largest tribe?
THE IMPORTANT ISSUE IS THIS ~ Under the Queen’s rule, indigenous species need to be protected.
So, opening up communications with the Maori indigenous communities IS PARAMOUNT in protecting the NZ coastlines and PREVENTING the extinction rate of “the world’s smallest and rarest dolphin.”
THE QUESTION TO ASK, WHY IS SEA BED MINING HAPPENING IN THE DOLPHINS’ HABITAT?
On our planet, this is the only place they live, 100 meters off the coastline.
Here is a PSA I created: https://youtu.be/eNCYo255Yik
Feel free to contact me: dovejoans@gmail.com
I’m currently working on publishing “I am Dolphin, beneath the waves of holographic communications”, over 40 years of investigative research on the value of dolphin telecommunications as well as humanity’s nature with Nature.
Ocean aloha,
Dove
p.s. I also studied marine sciences back in the 80’s at UCSB.