{"id":65723,"date":"2024-08-29T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=65723"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:23:47","slug":"shane-jones-misinformation-seabed-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shane-jones-misinformation-seabed-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Jones called out for seabed mining misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The minister for mining and burning, Shane Jones, is trying to take New Zealanders for fools with inflated claims and misinformation about seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki, says Greenpeace.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace is taking issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/ninetonoon\/audio\/2018953247\/minerals-potential-mapped-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">claims by Shane Jones<\/a> that the iron sand deposits in the South Taranaki Bight rival the size of the Sahara Desert, that New Zealand would follow China and Russia in terms of the quantities of the vanadium to be found there, and that seabed mining would create &#8220;huge numbers of jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Juressa Lee says,<\/strong> &#8220;Either Jones is having serious trouble with his maths, or he\u2019s knowingly misleading New Zealanders with overblown rhetoric about seabed mining.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;It becomes hard to trust anything Shane Jones says when he\u2019s throwing inaccuracies and miscalculations around left, right and centre.<\/p>\n\n<p>Seabed mining would not create lots of jobs, the mining profits would go offshore, and the cost of the environmental harm would be borne by Aotearoa for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;What Jones does get right is that wannabe seabed miner Trans-Tasman Resources is up against Mana Whenua Ng\u0101ti Ruanui and widespread community, scientific and environmental opposition to its heinous plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Trans-Tasman Resources plans to mine up to 50 million tonnes of iron sands and dump 45 million tonnes of waste back into the ocean every year &#8211; for 30 years. It has failed at every step of the way to get its plans approved and now sees the Fast Track as a way of getting the green light in a move that Greenpeace calls craven opportunism.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;What Jones must do now is acknowledge the mana and rangatiratanga of Ng\u0101ti Ruanui and the lived experiences and local understanding that all these communities have. They do not want seabed mining, and he must listen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Cindy Baxter, chair of Kiwis Against Seabed Mining said, <\/strong>&#8220;Shane Jones is clueless about the prospect of a vanadium industry establishing itself in the South Taranaki Bight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Nobody knows how to extract it out of the iron sands, and there are plenty of grid-scale batteries in development that don\u2019t require the mineral. 100% Australian-owned Trans Tasman Resources has repeatedly stated the minerals extracted would be trans-shipped at sea and sent to Asia for processing. It has admitted that the skills required are not in Taranaki, they\u2019d be flown in &#8211; so there wouldn\u2019t be any jobs for locals, aside from some catering and cleaning contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;The profits would go to Australia and we\u2019d be left to face the mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>She noted that opposition was widespread, not just from Iwi and environmentalists, but also from NZ First-voting Taranaki dairy farmers, the fishing industry, and the offshore wind industry.<\/p>\n\n<p>Seabed mining would be a significant threat to marine life, including blue whales, M\u0101ui and Hector\u2019s dolphins, little blue penguins, and critical fishing grounds.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-16190  sticky-bottom-mobile collapse show\"\n\t\t\tid=\"action-card\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/petition-ban-seabed-mining\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg-1024x677.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg-510x337.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/04\/64cce2ab-whale-tail-tonga-bg.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\" title=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/petition-ban-seabed-mining\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPETITION: Ban seabed mining in Aotearoa\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Seabed mining is a new threat to the oceans. 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mining in Aotearoa, protecting marine wildlife and the delicate ecosystems of the deep sea, move NZ away from destructive extractivism and towards a circular economy. The whakapapa of my wh\u0101nau is a journey through Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. From the Whangape Harbour to Rawhiti via Ngawha, down to Tauranga Moana, over to Tupapa and Ngatangiia in Rarotonga, and north again to Tahiti. My tamariki, through their p\u0101p\u0101, also whakapapa to Toi village in Niue. I was raised by a frugal mother who was always mindful of her impact on the planet, and navigated it accordingly. My dad has always enjoyed nature and instilled in us that there were responsibilities we had to be able to keep enjoying it. This was my very first influence. When I became an adult and then a mother myself, decolonising my life became a priority to raise my tamariki with an unapologetic, Indigenous worldview. Along the way and without realising, my whakaaro around kaitiakitanga began to shift, or rather, return. I felt more responsible, but also more empowered. I connect the dots between 160+ years of colonisation, extractivism, social and environmental harms and injustices and a worldview that sees the environment as separate to people. That people are somehow entitled to take, own, throw away, destroy and degrade. We are witnessing the impacts from living in a system rooted in colonialism and racism and extractive industries are devastating the planet and furthering the climate crisis. Now, wannabe miners are eyeing up the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight, and also seeking to plunder the deep seas. This problem is colossal, but so is our fight to protect te taiao. There are solutions to these issues. We must stop seabed mining before it starts.","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/juressa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65725,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723\/revisions\/65725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65723"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=65723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}