Rena Recovery Newsletter
Rena Recovery Newsletter
In this issue:
• Rena Recovery continues on reduced
scale
•
• Application heads for Environment
Court
•
• Mini conference to discuss Rena
findings
•
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Rena application heads
for Environment Court
Chief Executive of
Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Mary-Anne Macleod, has
announced that the Council had decided to refer the
Application for resource consent to abandon the wreck of the
Rena to the Environment Court.
“The Council
has carefully considered the request by the Astrolabe
Community Trust to refer the application to the Environment
Court, and we have concluded it is in the best interests of
the people of the Bay of Plenty that we agree to this,” Ms
Macleod said.
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Mini conference to
discuss Rena findings
More than 120
people attended a seminar at Ōtamarākau Marae earlier this
month to discuss the findings of a variety of Rena research
projects.
Chair of the Te Arawa ki Tai Trust,
seminar organiser Raewyn Bennett said reports to the seminar
covered everything from Matauranga Māori to the
effectiveness of oil cleaning techniques. All of the reports
were relevant to the Maketū/Te Arawa iwi recovery
effort.
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