Bream Bay braces for sandmining battle

Victorious campaigners against sandmining on the Mangawhai/Pākiri coastline are vowing to stand alongside their Bream Bay neighbours, should aggregate company McCallum Bros shift its focus north. Save Our Sands (SOS) member Ken Rayward says the company should brace for strong opposition if it pursues its fast track consent pathway. “They will be up against all their old foes from Pākiri, Te Arai and Mangawhai, who will be supporting their neighbours to stop the ongoing environmental destruction that sandmining causes,” he said. The declaration came just days after a landmark environmental vict...