Environment Court orders ironsands miner to unseal confidential evidence

Environment Court orders ironsands miner to unseal confidential evidence
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Nov. 8 (BusinessDesk) - The Environment Court has ordered would-be seabed ironsands miner Trans Tasman Resources to make public large amounts of evidence relating to the environmental impacts of its plans to mine iron ore off the coast of Whanganui. TTR had redacted large chunks of new evidence it included in its second application for a marine mining consent from the Environmental Protection Authority under the new regulatory regime governing New Zealand's extensive offshore Exclusive Economic Zone. The company's f...