Trans Tasman Resources

There's a clash of wills going on between central and local government in Taranaki when it comes to plans for seabed mining.

An environmental activist has swum a giant "X" across a proposed seabed mining site 25km off the South Taranaki coast to mark it as a no-go area for commercial development.

There is no evidence the Environmental Protection Authority lacked information when it approved mining off the south Taranaki coast, the High Court has been told.

Iwi and environmental groups are to appeal a bid to take millions of tonnes of iron sand from the seabed off South Taranaki.

An application to mine millions of tonnes of iron sand off South Taranaki has been approved by the Environmental Protection Authority.

A company wanting to mine iron sand off the South Taranaki coast has rejected accusations its proposal would wreck the marine environment.

Opponents of a proposal to mine millions of tonnes of ironsand from the seabed off the Taranaki coast say the hearings process has been biased.

A South Taranaki iwi has accused the Environmental Protection Authority of not releasing videos it says were redacted from an application to mine ironsands of the region's coast.

The Environmental Protection Authority has pledged to publish previously redacted information about a major mining project on its website as soon as it can.

Activists have won the right to see hundreds of blacked-out pages of information about a proposed seabed mining operation in Taranaki.

Activists are fighting to see hundreds of blacked-out pages of information about an application to mine ironsand from the Taranaki seabed.

A plan to mine iron sands off the South Taranaki coast is back on the table, two years after a similar application by Trans-Tasman Resources was turned down.