For months Forest & Bird kept the pressure on the coalition Government to release the projects destined for automatic fast tracking through Schedule 2 of the bill. In what we call a dark day for democracy, it was released long after public consultation closed.
Some of the projects on the list are ones that Forest & Bird has spent years successfully opposing in court – ‘zombie projects’ – such as the Ruataniwha dam in Hawke’s Bay and Trans-Tasman Resources’ proposal for seabed mining off the Taranaki coast.
Under the bill, proposed projects would be able to avoid community consultation, expert scrutiny, and environmental safeguards under existing laws.
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