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170 days ago

LOCAL CANDIDATES OPPOSE SAND MINING

Melissa from Parua Bay / Whangarei Heads

MAJORITY OF LOCAL CANDIDATES OPPOSE SAND MINING
Forty-one candidates in this year’s Whangārei District Council local elections were asked whether they support or oppose marine sand mining in Te Akau Bream Bay, and why.

The responses provided are as follows:
35 Candidates OPPOSE the mining of marine sand
1 Candidates NEUTRAL RESPONSE to the mining of marine sand
5 Candidates NO RESPONSE

NO RESPONSE - Contact them to ask WHY?
Hikurangi Coastal Ward - Susy Bretherton susyb@xtra.co.nz and Ren Haskell ren.haskell4council@gmail.com
Urban Ward - Tiana Epati TeeEpati@gmail.com
Jayne Golightly golightlyjayne@gmail.com
Paul Gosling – Paora (no email)

Survey results and individual responses can be viewed in the attached PDF. To view each Candidates personal statement, click on their name.

This survey was carried out by the Sub Committee of the Whangārei Heads Citizens Association—Say No to Sand Mining Te Akau Bream Bay.

Candidates Final Response Sand Mining.pdf Download View

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Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?

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Some Choice News!

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DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.

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For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.

Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?

We hope this brings a smile!

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