It’s the right thing to do, and it would be a popular stand to make.
Seabed mining offers nothing but risks untold harm to an already fragile ocean ecosystem.
It is opposed by hapū with mana moana, marine scientists, environmentalists including @greenpeace and Forest & Bird, the fishing and offshore wind energy industries, and a majority of New Zealand voters.
Essential reading.
The risk is all ours and the profits will be all theirs
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360663441/risk-all-ours-and-profits-will-be-all-theirs
Greenpeace says it will continue the fight to stop seabed mining starting in Aotearoa after Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) announced it has reapplied to the Environmental Protection Authority via the Fast-Track Act to start seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight.
#BanSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/greenpeace-pledges-continued-fight-against-seabed-mining-as-australian-miners-lodge-epa-application/
BOOM!
Shane Jones out on a limb in fantasy land, as usual.
The opposition to the Australian miners Manuka Resources and Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight is science-based and widespread.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/26/tikanga-is-not-blocking-seabed-miners-taranaki-leaders-say/
'#BloodSuckingVermin'? Isn't that what you'd call a company literally drilling the seabed to extract resources? 
Also:
“If they want to chain themselves anywhere, come to my office, this is a political issue.”
Is that an invitation, Mr Jones? 
Minister Shane Jones of NZ First, calls Greenpeace ‘blood-sucking vermin’ after mining protest in Wellington
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/regional-development-minister-shane-jones-of-nz-first-calls-greenpeace-blood-sucking-vermin-after-mining-protest-in-wellington/OS6ZYPQRN5CPHC74UKPDKAXCLU/
Watch: Five arrested after anti-mining protesters scale Straterra office in central Wellington
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528861/watch-five-arrested-after-anti-mining-protesters-scale-straterra-office-in-central-wellington
The activists have been arrested by police but cannot be taken away (due to being locked to the facilities)
Update: Bike locks have been cut, activists have been taken in police custody. The Straterra offices were occupied for 7 hours.
Wellington building cordoned off due to anti-mining protest
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528861/wellington-building-cordoned-off-due-to-anti-mining-protest
One of the activists on site has posted a thread with more details on why this action is happening:
"We’re occupying the Straterra HQ to protest fast-tracked seabed mining by their client: Trans-Tasman Resources.
Why Straterra? They are a malignant force, operating in the shadows to exert a pernicious influence over Govt policies.
Here are some excerpts of their 2023 plans
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Greenpeace occupies Straterra’s Wellington HQ in seabed mining protest - Press Release
“If we realise that we aren’t looking after what God has given us, if we aren’t guardians of the sea, of our land, of our water, then what will future generations have?”
Proud of the team supporting people of the Pacific standing up and demanding protection of the moana.
Cook Islands civil society calls for ocean protection from deep sea mining during underwater minerals meeting
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/cook-islands-civil-society-calls-for-ocean-protection-from-deep-sea-mining-during-underwater-minerals-meeting/
