That is my hearing presentation on the Chatham Rock Phosphate application.
The hearing is now adjourned. I don't know if it can take into account
the recently released info on the extremely increased melting of West
Antarctic glaciers.
We need to be building our soil to hold its CO2, not rushing to use the
remaining phosphate. Or to be hoping for a price increase of the uranium
in the CRP phosphate.
Some of us will not be around a few decades along when the cheaper
uranium/phosphate is used or when more inundation is happening.
I am wondering about what fish will be left. The "expert" to the CRP
hearing said the noise of the dredge tails off very fast and so will not
affect fish. Fish may use particle movement rather than sound pressure,
but in the distance they both tail off at 1/r according to what I read.
And crayfish as they return to their adult habitat after some years at
sea go by the sound of kina munching seaweed it was said recently on
TVNZ . If that sort of thing happens on our Chatham Rise how can we protect?
I have not had a reply from the Decision Making Committee on that, which
came up since my presentation.
Brian