Port Underwood and Waikawa roads used by approximately 100 logging trucks daily averted.
Logging Transport to Shakespeare Bay Five Years ago, the Guardians had a mandate from the local community to negotiate an accord with the Forestry Industry and Marlborough District Council (M.D.C) to barge export logs out of Onepua Bay, Tory Channel, using the road for local mill supply only. This was achieved with great effort in…
Read MoreKing Salmon apply for 8 new salmon farms in Marlborough Sounds
King Salmon applies for 8 new Salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds
Read MoreLand Based Salmon Farm
Retired scientist Larry Albright raises sockeye salmon in above-ground fresh water tanks which prevents waste from entering open water systems.
Read MoreDive beneath an old Salmon Farm
Take a dive with filmmaker Twyla Roscovich at an old salmon farm in the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia.
Read MoreChairman’s Report 2011
Kia Ora Everyone, Well its been another very busy year for the Guardians Of The Sounds. Issues concerning the Guardians this year included: Methyl Bromide Forestry Marinas and Moorings Aquaculture
Read MoreSubmission to the Aquaculture Bill Select Committee
The Guardians of the Sounds, an environmental group made up of Marlborough Sounds property owners , recreational users and tourism operators, would like to make our feelings known to your select committee and would very much like the opportunity to address your committee in person. The Marlborough Sounds, and in particular the Queen Charlotte Sound,…
Read MoreSubmission: Mooring Management Bylaw
The Guardians have been looking at this bylaw and trying to find positive aspects to it that would benefit mooring owners and recreational users. Unfortunately we can’t find any benefits, only negative impacts, this bylaw is quiet clearly a way to legitimize the Port Companies desire to clear all the moored vessels that presently occupy…
Read MoreForeshore and Seabed Submission
Dear Minister My wife Takutai and I attended your road show in Blenheim. I raised an issue; you said I would be contacted so there would be further discussion. Your secretary took our contact details but as yet contact has not been made! Ownership of the seabed is an issue about perception. In 1850 Maori…
Read MoreAnnual Chairmans Report
Kia Ora everyone, Well its that time again, another 12 months of campaigning behind us, so whats to report; Well the issue that has dominated our energies for the last 12 months has been the Methyl bromide fumigations at Port Shakespear. Every fumigation releases up to 5 tons of a deadly toxin into the atmosphere…
Read MoreMethyl Bromide Hearing in Picton with ERMA
Notice of Hearings The following has been received from ERMA: The public hearing on the reassessment of Methyl Bromide has now been confirmed for Picton Picton: 19 May 2010 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Mercure Picton Marlborough Sounds (formerly The Yacht Club) 25 Waikawa Road Picton Contact for Hearing (ERMA) Samantha Smith (04) 918 4880…
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