Seabed miner seeks top court hearing

Seabed miner seeks top court hearing
Gavin Evans
Trans-Tasman Resources has gone back to court in a bid to keep alive a proposed seabed mining project off the southern Taranaki coast. The firm, which wants to mine mineral-rich iron sands from the seafloor more than 20 kilometres off the coast, has sought approval from the Supreme Court to challenge an unfavourable ruling by the Court of Appeal earlier this month. That ruling had overturned the consents the Environmental Protection Authority granted for the project in 2017 and ordered the EPA to consider the proposal again. TTR execut...

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