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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki

@corowatchdog.bsky.social
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We are a grass roots group in Aotearoa New Zealand dedicated to keeping further industrial mining out of the Hauraki, and supporting others with similar kaupapa (values) - some things are just #2precious2mine!

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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Scary to think of all that land being available for mining companies to buy - especially since they are already targeting it! #2precious2lose #2precious2mine
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
While I get it - greed is the driver - it really is so hard to understand why anyone thinks it's good to sell off, to develop, Conservation Land! If you love these places, the flora and fauna that call them home, have your say on the Conservation Amendment Bill! Closes July 2 #2precious2lose
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Eeek... theres some bad stuff afoot!
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Fast track Wrong track : Fast decision Wrong decision. For those who want a read, link to decision doc that grants mining in conservation land, new toxic dams and even another pit at Waihī .. doc link at the top of the page… all 346 pages of it.. www.fasttrack.govt.nz/.../waihi-no...
fasttrack.govt.nz
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Undermining Our Democracy open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...
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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
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
And what they are up to - all for gold, obviously
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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 · 16/07/2025
and lets face it, theres stuff all that they can decline it on, given how the law is written....
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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 · 10/06/2025
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...
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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
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Have you signed yet? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st... #Aotearoa #Environmnet #2Preciouc2lose
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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 ...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Here's a few of our thoughts on todays RMA announcements: www.watchdog.org.nz/government-b...
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Government Beyond Stupid – Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki
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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“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
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#WarOnNature #NotOurFuture
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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.
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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 · 22/05/2025
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 · 21/05/2025
*Oceanas
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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 · 21/05/2025
Presumably you just drop the word 'no'.
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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...
fasttrack.govt.nz
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
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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
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
our.actionstation.org.nz
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 ...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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...
our.actionstation.org.nz
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 ...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“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 · 13/05/2025
“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 · 13/05/2025
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
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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 · 05/05/2025
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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The Price Of Gold: Mining, Pollution, And Resistance In Yellowknife Book By John Sandlos,arn Keeling, ('tp') | Indigo
Buy the book The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by john sandlos,arn keeling at Indigo
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Read more here: www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/wai...
fasttrack.govt.nz
Waihi North
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Stink NEWS: Oceana Golds application to mine in DOC land, to build new toxic waste dumps, to dig another pit etc has now been accepted into the Fast-track process...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Oceana Gold submitted their substantive application last month - it was returned as 'incomplete' and as yet they have not reapplied. When they do, it could all move very fast - and all without any public input at all. Here is a brief overview of the process it will follow:
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today we celebrate the beautiful corner of the earth that we are lucky enough to live in, and we acknowledge our responsibility to do all we can to ensure it doesn't get destroyed by gold mining! Happy Earth Day Te Tara o te Ika a Māui!
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A proud moment for 90% of kiwis - who submitted against this racist crap. The report is in early (probs cause it was so so soooo obvs where it was going), showing what a waste of time/$ it was. Someone should have told them that in the first place.. oh. Wait on... thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...
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Select committee recommends scrapping Treaty principles bill amid huge opposition
Delivering the report 40 days ahead of schedule, the justice committee has recommended, by majority, that the bill not proceed.
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Its SH25 the Kopu Hikuai Road, the red line just above permit #60528... runs from Kopu basically to Tairua... sadly Sched 4 only protects from open cast, not underground mining.. you can see a much better map at www.nzpam.govt.nz/webmaps
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So, this is the mining permit situation here on Te Tara o te Ika a Māui the Coromandel and Hauraki right now... 9 Active Exploration permits, 3 exploration applications, 1NAA (contestable area), 3 Mining Permits (including Martha at Waihi)... nearly 60,000hectares under active Exploration!
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Rallying against Diversity Equity and Inclusion gives it its full impact... hate the way they just de-anagramise to defuse...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Grossly this projects proposed expansion is on the Fasttrack List too...
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Eww... these mining companies are crawling all over Aotearoa - We have a lot here, all hunting gold, but looking at the maps of the Country at the New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals site they really are coming in thick and fast - particularly those Canadian ones!
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Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki @corowatchdog.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As are so many people, we are branching out our socials... so... Kia ora, hello, greetings BlueSky community. Join us as we continue to fight against industrial mining in Te Tara o te Ika a Māui (the Coromandel Peninsula) and wider Hauraki!
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