Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 16, 2018 17:10:29 GMT 12
TWO HAPU IN NEW LEGAL BID TO REMOVE RENA WRECK OFF ASTROLABE REEF
A fundamental finding by the Environment Court that it had no power to require the wreck of the Rena to be removed off Astrolabe Reef will be challenged in an appeal to the High Court.
Motiti Island's Ngai Te Hapu Incorporated and Papamoa-based Nga Potiki A Tamapahore Trust have filed the appeal, with the three-day High Court hearing expected to start on June 25.
It will take place nearly seven years after the container ship ran aground on the reef and unleashed New Zealand's worst environmental maritime disaster......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12012050
A fundamental finding by the Environment Court that it had no power to require the wreck of the Rena to be removed off Astrolabe Reef will be challenged in an appeal to the High Court.
Motiti Island's Ngai Te Hapu Incorporated and Papamoa-based Nga Potiki A Tamapahore Trust have filed the appeal, with the three-day High Court hearing expected to start on June 25.
It will take place nearly seven years after the container ship ran aground on the reef and unleashed New Zealand's worst environmental maritime disaster......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12012050