Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 6, 2024 12:39:38 GMT 12
Graeme Reeves: WHY IS THE CREATION OF CUSTOMARY MARINE TITLES AN ISSUE OF CONCERN FOR NEW ZEALAND?
All of the above rights are worthy of further discussion, but I wish to only address one - the right to ownership of minerals except for petroleum, gold, silver and uranium.
New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZPAM) is the government agency that manages New Zealand’s Crown minerals estate.
It has confirmed that there are significant rare earths and other valuable minerals occurring in the seafloor muds in our permit area, including cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, yttrium, cobalt, rubidium, caesium, germanium, gallium, strontium, thallium and tungsten.
I must confess that I have not heard of most of them, but what I do know is that rare earth minerals are in high demand for many applications including cell phones, flat-screen televisions, electric car batteries and other high-tech products as well as military applications, and there is a high demand for them.
There is a potential under the Court’s interpretation of the MACA Act that Maori will have control over all of these resources to the exclusion of all non- Maori.
CONCLUSION
My view is that Parliament needs to take urgent action to curtail the excesses of the activist Judiciary and either amend the MACA Act to exclude any reference to tikanga and give effect to the minority decision of Millar J or to repeal MACA and start again to design a law that is fair and equitable and respects the equal rights of all New Zealanders in a twenty first century context.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/graeme-reeves-why-is-creation-of.html
All of the above rights are worthy of further discussion, but I wish to only address one - the right to ownership of minerals except for petroleum, gold, silver and uranium.
New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZPAM) is the government agency that manages New Zealand’s Crown minerals estate.
It has confirmed that there are significant rare earths and other valuable minerals occurring in the seafloor muds in our permit area, including cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, yttrium, cobalt, rubidium, caesium, germanium, gallium, strontium, thallium and tungsten.
I must confess that I have not heard of most of them, but what I do know is that rare earth minerals are in high demand for many applications including cell phones, flat-screen televisions, electric car batteries and other high-tech products as well as military applications, and there is a high demand for them.
There is a potential under the Court’s interpretation of the MACA Act that Maori will have control over all of these resources to the exclusion of all non- Maori.
CONCLUSION
My view is that Parliament needs to take urgent action to curtail the excesses of the activist Judiciary and either amend the MACA Act to exclude any reference to tikanga and give effect to the minority decision of Millar J or to repeal MACA and start again to design a law that is fair and equitable and respects the equal rights of all New Zealanders in a twenty first century context.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/graeme-reeves-why-is-creation-of.html