Fw: The Floodgate for Claims to Beaches has now Opened
Joyce Fleming
FLOODGATES FOR CLAIMS
TO BEACHES HAS NOW OPENED
The Coastal
Coalition warned that the law change would open the floodgates for claims by
opportunistic tribal corporations wanting to gain ownership and control of our
coast.
This map from
TV3 News in early May shows that this is now occurring with at least 21 coastal
claims now lodged: http://www.3news.co.nz/Opponents-say-I-told-you-so-to-Foreshore-claims/tabid/1607/articleID/253487/Default.aspx
Claims include
valuable whitebaiting areas with many tribes competing for the same coastal
area.
Tribes have another 5 years to lodge claims. The process allows
claims to be settled in secret by the Minister so there may be many other claims
in the pipeline that the public is unaware of.
Please help stop this
madness – support our Citizens Initiated Referendum to restore Crown ownership
of the foreshore and seabed.
We need to collect 320,000 signatures in
support of the CIR by the end of June to trigger a nation-wide
referendum.
Referendum Forms for gathering signatures can be downloaded here>> or here: http://www.nzcpr.com/CoastalCoalitionCIR.pdf
Flyers for distributing into letterboxes can be downloaded here>> or here: http://www.nzcpr.com/cirad.pdf
You can help further
by forwarding this email to all of your contacts.
With the number of
claims snowballing and the CIR deadline looming, there is no time to
lose.
Kind regards
Geoff Parker
Coastal Coalition CIR Coordinator
09 426 7874
cma...@inbox.com
www.CoastalCoalition.co.nz