Banners on the beach protest today

• mickysavage
• 10 years ago
• Categories: disaster, Environment, Mining

If you are looking for something to do and want to spend some time on one of our pristine beaches head off to a west coast beach today to get there by 12 pm.  Details of what is being planned can be seen here.

I will be heading off to Piha and will update this post with photos.  And if you want to see why the current deep sea drilling proposal is such a stupid idea consider the environmental spill response kit that the drill ship has on board.  According to ECONZ :

“The kit on the drillship includes:

• 15-4’ socks, 5-8’ socks, 190 pads, 16 pillows;
• 2-10 lb Albozorbit, 15 disposable bags with ties;
• 4 pair of nitrile gloves, 4 pairs silvershield gloves;
• 4 each splash resistant goggles, 4-Tyvek coveralls XL;
• 1 non-sparking shovel; and
• 1 emergency response guidebook.”

(page 58-59, Anadarko Discharge Management Plan from the Environmental Impact Assessment.)

Can you imagine what effect this would have after even a modest spill?

Update:  Just back from Piha and the crowd was huge.  There must have been a thousand people there.  The line of banners stretched most of the way along the southern side and then doubled over itself.