Save the Westland Petrel - stop the Barrytown mine
Support West Coast residents as we take on the giants of the mining world
Barrytown, West Coast
The Coast Road Resilience Group (CRRG) needs help to protect the Westland petrel (tāiko) and the environment, particularly now that consents have been granted for TiGa mineral sands mining of the Barrytown Flats.
Although the CRRG has, through mediation, settled our Environment Court appeal against TiGa's resource consent, we will use these funds to continue the fight to protect our environment. This will include monitoring the mining operation.
TiGa's inclusion in the first 'Fast Track' list describe TiGa's potential scope as 635ha, more than 10x the area applied for in the first resource consent. We worked hard to establish the best conditions possible for the first resource consent under the RMA. Fast tracking this operation will mean the loss of community voice and potentially, any positive gains from the RMA process. Barrytown is the only nesting site of the Westland petrel (tāiko). Industrial mining activity threatens this and other bird species, also the wellbeing of residents, nature tourism businesses and the area's appeal to visitors as our coast road becomes a haulage route for trucks.
We are concerned how consent conditions will be managed, and that they will fall short of adequately protecting flora and fauna. Future generations will question what we did while the planet was plundered and our bird populations faced extinction.
Your support is appreciated- thank you!
For more info: email coastroadrg@gmail.com.
Use of funds
Donations will be used to pay for expert advice from hydrologists, planners & lawyers and any other costs that may arise in our fight against the mining corporation.
Latest update
Stop the Barrytown TiGa mine- help us in our appeal to the environment court 19 May 2024
The Coast Road Resilience Group (CRRG) has appealed to the Environment Court, and is contracting a number of experts to provide evidence. We need your support to help finance this appeal.
We are continueing to fight for our community and environment, after consents were granted in April 2024 to TiGa Minerals and Metals for mineral sands mining and processing on the Barrytown Flats.
We remain particularly concerned for our unique and precious Westland petrel (Tāiko), the Little Blue Penguin (kororā) and the wealth of shore birds which could be endangered by this major industrial operation in a sensitive coastal environment.
The community is devastated this major industrial operation could happen in our quiet rural setting.
The CRRG does not give any social licence or credence to TiGa's claims around economic returns to the Coast, or how they will manage the dozens and dozens of complicated consent conditions.
Joining the CRRG is as easy as emailing your name, postal address and phone number to
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