Get Action! Concerned Communities of Bream Bay against Marine Sand Mining w/ Brenda Leeuwenberg: 12 February, 2025

The McCallum Brothers is an Auckland-based Sand mining company who have created a proposal to mine eight million cubic metres of sand from the seabed of the Bream Bay in the North Island over the next 35 years.

While initially considered a low priority project, the proposal has recently been fast-tracked under new legislation, prompting opposition from local Iwi and Hapu, as well as concerned residents across the bream bay, for the projectsproject's potential impacts on local marine life and the region’s fishing industries.

For this week’s Get Action! Oto spoke to Brenda Leeuwenberg - a resident of Ruakaka, who started a petition on behalf of the communities along the Bream Bay, calling on the regional government to oppose the project and revoke its fast-track consents.

If you’re interested in signing this petition you can find it here: