However, opponents to seabed mining, when confronted with expert evidence and research-based facts in the courts, turn to being activists in order to spread misinformation and unqualified statements to support their cause through disruption and community-fed misinformation. The court process to obtain mining permits has been a long and at times very arduous road; however. the end is nigh. It is expected that the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in the coming months, a judgment that will be determined on the facts presented and in accordance with the laws of the land. I am Taranaki born and bred and I love my province.