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Weevil establishes on Rangitīkei farm; poised to defeat field horsetail weed
18 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Horizons environmental programme co-ordinator Craig Davey speaks at the field horsetail workshop at Ferry View Farm. Photo / Supplied
Horizons environmental programme co-ordinator Craig Davey speaks at the field horsetail workshop at Ferry View Farm. Photo / Supplied
Whanganui Chronicle
Success seems likely in the fight against field horsetail weed, prompting a Rangitīkei group which has been focusing on the pest to hold a celebratory workshop at Ferry View farm.
The Northern Hemisphere weed spread to the coastal Rangitīkei farm with 2004 flood waters and became firmly established, Horizons environmental co-ordinator Craig Davey said.
TTR wants to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed a year, every year for 35 years. That doesn’t sound like “minimal” impact to us.
Seabed mining involves dragging huge machines across the seafloor, sucking up sediment onto a ship where large magnets separate out the ten percent of minerals, then dumping the remaining 90 percent back into the ocean.
Some of that sediment goes back to the seafloor, but models show a lot drifts much further, smothering sea life, distant reefs and coral.
This proposed seabed mine would be the first of its kind anywhere in the world. They simply don’t know the extent of the effect it would have on the ocean, whatever Mr Eggers may say.