{"id":3826,"date":"2013-07-23T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2013\/07\/23\/tauranga-co-governance-initiative-welcomed\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:55:00","slug":"tauranga-co-governance-initiative-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2013\/07\/23\/tauranga-co-governance-initiative-welcomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga co-governance initiative welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consisting of four iwi representatives and four Crown and local authority representatives, the Tauranga Moana Governance Group will ensure local iwi has an equal say in future decisions affecting the harbour and its entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Having received extensive consultation from both the Office of Treaty Settlements and Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Mr Cairns says the framework effectively formalises existing provisions under Section 6(e) of the Resource Management Act.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u201cMatters of national importance\u201d, that clause states that all persons exercising the functions and powers of the Act shall recognise \u201cthe relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, waahi tapu, and other taonga\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cairns adds that the Port of Tauranga is \u201cworking hard\u201d to re-establish its relationship with the collective, which he describes as having \u201cquite genuine and sincere concerns\u201d for the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelationships were challenged throughout our recent dredging consents process,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned a lot through that process and are sincere in wanting to work with the collective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns says his port is comfortable with the co-governance framework for the harbour and catchment being drawn up between the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective, local authorities and the Crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}