Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 4, 2018 16:18:37 GMT 12
IWI SAY MATAMATA METAL WORKS EXTENSION WILL 'BREACH TREATY RIGHTS'
A metal works' company seeking consent to extend their operation onto a sacred burial site is facing opposition from local iwi.
Matamata Metal Supplies has lodged an application for six replacement, and one new resource consent, to authorise the continuation of quarry activities at their site in Okauia.
The new application asks Waikato Regional Council for consent to establish an expansion of the quarry, with Metal Supplies to obtain some additional areas for mineral extraction.
The expansion will result in the use of two new "overburden areas" - but spokespeople from the Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Hinerangi Trust says doing so would "cause severe harm and detriment to sacred burial caves, maunga and Mangapiko awa".....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/108179785/iwi-say-matamata-metal-works-extension-will-breach-treaty-rights
A metal works' company seeking consent to extend their operation onto a sacred burial site is facing opposition from local iwi.
Matamata Metal Supplies has lodged an application for six replacement, and one new resource consent, to authorise the continuation of quarry activities at their site in Okauia.
The new application asks Waikato Regional Council for consent to establish an expansion of the quarry, with Metal Supplies to obtain some additional areas for mineral extraction.
The expansion will result in the use of two new "overburden areas" - but spokespeople from the Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Hinerangi Trust says doing so would "cause severe harm and detriment to sacred burial caves, maunga and Mangapiko awa".....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/108179785/iwi-say-matamata-metal-works-extension-will-breach-treaty-rights