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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Sep 25

And what they are up to - all for gold, obviously

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Sep 25

There are so many miners targeting Te Tara o te Ika a Maui in 2025! Bliimin Shane Jones been pimping it out hard! Check out who is here...

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Jul 16

and lets face it, theres stuff all that they can decline it on, given how the law is written....

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Jul 16

This Fast-track process is hard to follow... the Panel Convenor has decided that the application is too big to consider in the short timeframes allowed, so has added 82 days to enable consideration ofall the info so a total of 112 working days ...

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is a great snapshot from Bryan on what we are facing under the Fasttrack right now...

Undermining Our Democracy open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...

Undermining Our Democracy

How our Government is Fast-Tracking a Canadian Mining Company's plans to dig a motorway sized tunnel under a native forest. (Duration 6 mins) 10/6/2025

open.substack.com

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · Jun 6

Have you signed yet? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

#Aotearoa #Environmnet #2Preciouc2lose

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife

Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

our.actionstation.org.nz

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 29

Here's a few of our thoughts on todays RMA announcements:
www.watchdog.org.nz/government-b...

Government Beyond Stupid – Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki

www.watchdog.org.nz

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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · May 27

“When we criticise the system, we’re not attacking individuals, we’re challenging the rules that let 3% hoard the wealth while everyone else gets squeezed. Often people overidentify with the system, they think an attack on the govt is an attack on them. It’s not. It’s a defence of the 97%”-RW
#NZpol

Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · May 27

Kia ora koutou,

If you like your politics polite and pointless, this ain’t for you.

Debbie and Rawiri hit BHN LIVE at 9pm.
No filter, no fluff, just straight kōrero.

Tonight at 9pm, details @patbrittenden.bsky.social post.

Ngā mihi 🫶🏾

@whaeadeb.bsky.social
@rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social
#NZPol

Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · May 27

BHN Tonight at 9pm

- Co leaders of the @tepaatimaori.bsky.social, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, are both with us LIVE at 9pm
- Couple of other things we may chat about but we want to make space for the TPM co-leaders to share
#nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social

youtube.com/live/HWNjfWH...

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 22

#WarOnNature #NotOurFuture

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 22

Aotearoa is being backed into a corner where we are supposed to be grateful for the abuse these companies dish out.
It's just not right.
It's just not.

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 22

They are creating a system where we are expected to look to destructive industries like mining to (give us peanuts) to fund predator control, to research and support internationally significant threatened native species, to create (unsustainable) jobs.

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 22

This is a dark time for Aotearoa, and for our environment; we have a Government that has happily put money before anything - before the environment, before community.

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 21

*Oceanas

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 21

So, everyone has been super happy to use the Archey's frog to highlight the horrible rhetoric of this Government. Now y'all need to help us stand up for it - Oceans application is live in the Fasttrack - and us and the frog need all the help we can get!!! #2precious2mine #FriendsofFreddy

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 21

Presumably you just drop the word 'no'.

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 21

And here it comes.... OGLs Fast-track application to mine nationally significant conservation land and build more toxic tailings dams is public... tell us your thoughts!
WARNING: it's a whopper!
www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...

www.fasttrack.govt.nz

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 14

We must not allow development to be promoted over our unique and all too threatened species!

Add you name to our petition now! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds

A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 14

As our native species continue to struggle, the Government has just weakened the Wildlife Act in favour of development! Please sign our petition calling for urgent action on this - we need to strengthen our protections, not weaken them!

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife

Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

our.actionstation.org.nz

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 14

This Government has weakened the Wildlife Act and basically told the courts to take a hike, throwing our native species straight into the path of destruction.
It's a terrifying blow for the future of our unique wildlife - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

Stop Legalised Killing of Protected Wildlife

Under urgency and with no public consultation, the Government has changed the Wildlife Act 1953, directly threatening at-risk indigenous species. This action undermines a High Court ruling protecting ...

our.actionstation.org.nz

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 13

“The donations from the mining industry do not have any impact whatsoever on the changes to the Wildlife Act....” Shane Jones
Just curious, who was alleging that?? NZ First took $14k from Clayton Cosgrove who works for Oceana Gold..

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 13

“The donations from the mining industry do not have any impact whatsoever on the changes to the Wildlife Act....” Shane Jones
Just curious, who was alleging that?? NZ First took $14k from Clayton Cosgrove who works for Oceana Gold..

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 13

habitat disturbance (those frogs aren't the only thing up there) and fragmentation, the toxic legacy that gold mining leaves and creates, the social impacts of reliance on boom and bust industry, the downstream effects...... etc

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 13

I can clarify that we are concerned about a lot more than *just8 the tiny 200million year old frog Mr Jones is so hung up on! There are a range of concerns: impacts on water, on the forest from dewatering in a time of climate crisis and increasing droughts,

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · May 5

You’ll soon be able to read the full story of how this toxic legacy came to be in our forthcoming book, The Price of Gold!

www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-pr...

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · May 13

We are at Stage 3.... should be seeing the application - all 11,000 odd pages of it, uploaded tomorrow or Thurs!

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