{"id":67954,"date":"2024-12-18T07:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=67954"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:52:28","slug":"greenpeace-says-fast-track-law-will-continue-to-be-resisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/greenpeace-says-fast-track-law-will-continue-to-be-resisted\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace says Fast Track Law will continue to be resisted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace is warning that the Fast Track Approvals bill will continue to be resisted when it becomes law after passing its third reading in parliament yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace seabed mining campaigner Juressa Lee says: \u201cTwenty thousand people marched against the Fast Track bill in Auckland showing the strength of opposition to this shoddy law.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe Fast Track will destroy existing protections for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/honouring-our-freshwater-what-is-te-mana-o-te-wai\/\"> freshwater<\/a>, forests, oceans and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/fast-track-approvals-advisory-group-adds-insult-to-injury\/\"> wildlife<\/a>. It ignores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/fast-track-approvals-advisory-group-adds-insult-to-injury\/\">the concerns of local communities<\/a>, and will allow zombie projects which have been previously rejected to come back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Those zombie projects include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/explore\/seabed-mining\/what-is-trans-tasman-resources\/\">Trans-Tasman Resources<\/a>\u2019 planned seabed mining project in the South Taranaki Bight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Juressa Lee says: \u201cTime and again TTR failed to provide adequate evidence that seabed mining would not devastate rare and precious marine life in the South Taranaki Bight. Instead, TTR is trying to get its failed project via a law which is&nbsp; anti-democratic, non-transparent and not subject to the usual environmental checks and balances. .<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cFor more than 10 years, Greenpeace, local iwi and the Taranaki community have opposed TTR. That resistance continues as demonstrated by the recent occupation of mining lobbyist Straterra\u2019s Wellington offices, and the shutting down of the Manuka Resources annual general meeting in Sydney a few weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>TTR is not the only so-called \u2018zombie project\u2019 on the fast-track list. Large scale irrigation projects, including the highly controversial Ruataniwha and Klondyke dams, have also been included.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace campaigner Amanda Larsson says: \u201cEverybody has the right to clean drinking water and swimmable rivers, which is why local communities have successfully resisted large irrigation projects to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWith this fast-track law, Luxon\u2019s Government is trying to overrule community and court decisions in order to ram through dairy expansion, which will inevitably lead to more polluted rivers and drinking water, including in rural schools.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cNobody wants their kids drinking polluted water. Any company who thinks they\u2019ll get an easy ride with the fast-track is underestimating what people will do to protect their kids\u2019 health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>More than 21,000 people have signed on to an open letter promising to resist fast-tracked projects if the companies go ahead with using the process, and Greenpeace is warning that this resistance will continue.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-65557 \"\n\t\t\t\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-stop-the-fast-track-open-letter\/\" 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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\/67954","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=67954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67957,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67954\/revisions\/67957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67954"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=67954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}