Labour’s Legacy – Coromandel Schedule 4

4th Labour Government – introduced moratorium on open cast mining on the Coromandel. - both Helen Clarke and Phillip Woollaston refused access for gold mines near Thames 1996 – 1997 Labour Opposition - Judith Tizard’s Private Member’s Bill proposed protection for all conservation land from Mount

Te Aroha to the northern tip of the Peninsula. The law as passed however gave Schedule 4 protection only to conservation land north of the Kopu-Hikuai Road, and the internal waters of the Peninsula.

Select Committee Report 1996 “The Labour Opposition believes that the decision …. to exclude land south of the Kopu-Hikuai Road …. ignores important ecological values” “While the Labour Opposition warmly endorses the concept for a future National Park it regrets that the majority of the Committee has chosen to exclude, at this stage, conservation land south of the Kopu-Hikuai Road…..The Labour Opposition perceives an inconsistency between these two decisions” 2010 Ours Not Mine campaign - strongly opposed National’s plan to remove large areas of Coromandel conservation land from Schedule 4

Labour’s 2011 Election Manifesto

P.115 “Labour will consider asking Parliament to amend Schedule 4 to add ecological areas, world heritage areas, and marine mammal sanctuaries to the generic protected categories, and to extend southwards the described area of the Coromandel.” “Labour will make it clear that land may be added to Schedule 4 by Order in Council,”

Current Schedule 4 Areas – North of Kopu-Hikuai Road

Southern Coromandel Conservation Estate

Thames Coromandel District Plan

Significant Natural Areas Outstanding Landscapes

Conservation land Natural Character

Archey’s frog – the World’s most endangered amphibian

Striped Gecko – World’s most endangered Gecko

Helm’s Butterfly

“There 107 nationally threatened species (51 flora species and 56 fauna species) within the District, some of which are not found elsewhere.” – Thames Coromandel District Council Biodiversity Report 2013

Biodiversity

Outstanding Conservation Values

Local Iwi Support

Five Southern Coromandel hapu :- • Ngati Pu • Ngati Whanaunga • Ngati Maru • Ngati Tama te Ra and • Ngati Hako represented on the Whangamata Marae Committee, have all expressed strong opposition to mining in conservation land south of the Kopu-Hikuia Road, and are supportive of extending Schedule 4 protection to this land.

2010 Campaign Schedule 4

Labour’s 2014 Election Manifesto

That the Manifesto contains a commitment by Labour in it’s first 100 days in office, to add to Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act by Order In Council, all the conservation land and the internal waters of the Coromandel Peninsula, southwards from the Kopu-Hikuai Road to the southern boundary of the Te Aroha Ecological District (being the boundary proposed in Judith Tizard’s Private Members Bill)

Submission :-