Ahh, the glorious West Coast. Beautiful sunsets, neverending beaches, peaceful fishing villages, and perhaps soon, giant remote-controlled crawling machines churning up the ocean in search of diamonds, heavy minerals and metals. One of those things doesn't fit - unless Trans Hex gets to mine 321 square kilometres along a huge 80km swath of the West Coast.
Activist Gavin Craythorne says deep water mining is a serious problem: "These machines are sucking up 600 tons of gravel per hour 24/7. The disturbance to the ocean takes a very long time to rehabilitate." The scoping report of the Trans Hex mining application , also notes three shipwrecks that lie “within the 1 km buffers around the concessions” which means that a “Marine Heritage Impact Assessment will be undertaken”.
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