3 x Articles 16/6/21 - Landfills - Paeroa, Dome Vlly, SNAs

[Kiwi Frontline]

IWI OPPOSE EXTENSION OF TIROHIA LANDFILL NEAR PAEROA

A Waikato iwi is calling for the Hauraki District council to keep their word and decline an application by Waste Management NZ to expand the Tirohia landfill site which sits on their maunga, Rae o Te Papa.

The Ngāti Hako iwi are frustrated that 21 years after losing a case for a landfill site to be built on their whenua maunga Rae o Te Papa they are having to fight again to prevent the site from being extended, despite a memorandum of understanding (MOU) being agreed upon in 2003......

www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/444763/iwi-oppose-extension-of-tirohia-landfill-near-paeroa

[Kiwi Frontline]

SAMUELS' SOLUTION FOR SNA MESS TIKANGA RESERVES

Former Minister Dover Samuels says a new system needs to be developed to protect sensitive areas on Māori land.

He has told Ministers and Far North mayor John Carter there are ways to create reserves under tikanga Māori so they remain under the ownership and control of whānau and hapū.

"The council should resource those people who own those whenua to bring this about so it can lie parallel with the Pākehā concept of reserves but it becomes operative under the tikanga and it is not part of any district or regional plan that can be changed by an application under the Resource Management Act, simple as that," he says.......

www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/Mjc1NjI/Samuels%27-solution-for-SNA-mess-tikanga-reserves


MANA WHENUA 'ABSOLUTELY GUTTED' DOME VALLEY LANDFILL HAS RECEIVED GREEN LIGHT

Mana whenua are "absolutely gutted" the controversial Dome Valley landfill was given a conditional green light by Auckland Council yesterday.

Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust’s Terrence Hohneck told Breakfast he did not feel mana whenua had been heard.

"We're absolutely guted as mana whenua ... We totally oppose it. There's been strong opposition ... we're pretty gutted that the council made this decision," he said.....

www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/mana-whenua-absolutely-gutted-dome-valley-landfill-has-received-green-light