Month: November 2013
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What the Waitakere Ranges Local Board wants to say to the Government about deep sea oil drilling
Last weekend there were a series of spirited protests on West Coast beaches by people who are deeply concerned at the prospect that oil rigs could be drilled within 6 nautical miles of the local sea shore. All Waitakere Ranges local board members were at the protests except Denise Yates who was ill but with…
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Oil rigs – coming to a beach near you?
By Greg Presland The Government has recently engaged in consultation with Auckland Council about the granting of oil exploration permits in the area west of Auckland’s west coast beaches. But the Waitakere Ranges Local Board was not included in this consultation and you have to wonder about the advisability of drilling oil wells in an…