This document summarizes a community meeting about proposed petroleum permits on New Zealand's East Coast. It outlines two existing permits held by companies to drill for oil and gas. It discusses the process of fracking and lists some of the chemicals used. While companies claim fracking brings jobs and revenue, residents express concerns about risks to water, land, health and the environment. The document suggests actions the community can take, including lobbying local government to ban fracking and denying access to private land.

1. East Coast Petroleum Permits WhatatutuCommunity Meeting 5 October 2011

2. Overview History of petroleum on the East Coast How does mining happen? Crown Minerals Programme& Permits Company profiles On-shore drilling & fracking What are the benefits? What are the costs? What can we do?

3. How does mining happen? Government issues a permit Land owners provide consent to access Council issues a Resource Consent

4. Permit 38348 TePuia Expires: 7/11/2011 Area: 1606 SQKM Location: East Coast Basin Operation Name: WaitangiHill Minerals: Oil, Condensate, LPG, Petroleum, Gas Tokomaru Bay Whatatutu Tolaga Bay Te Karaka Whangara

5. Permit 50940 Te Karaka Expires: 2/4/2014 Area: 274.7 SQKM Location: East Coast Basin Operation Name: OnshoreGisborne area Minerals: Oil, Condensate, LPG, Petroleum, Gas Whangara Manutuke Muriwai

6. Company Profiles

7. Onshore Drilling

8. Fracking The technique isused to extractunconventional’ oil and gas – that’sindustryspeak for sources of hydrocarbonsthatuntilrecentlyweretooexpensive or difficult to extract The technique has been implicated in serious contamination of water supplies It has been banned in France, isunder investigation in otherEuropean states, South Africaand some parts of the US. Fracking has happened in Taranaki, and has been proposed for other parts of the country, including the East Coast and Canterbury. The industryisinsistingthatproblemselsewherewerecaused by ‘cowboys’, whomourgovernmentwould not allow to operatehere.

9. Fracking

10. Fracking The frackingthat has occurred in Taranaki wasdonewithoutResource Consents. The Taranaki Regional Council only last monthdecidedthatperhapstherehadbetterbe a consentingprocess in future. Much of the evidencewe are seeingindicatesthatfrackingis dirty, dangerous, and completelyatoddswith an intelligent 21st centuryeconomic or energystrategy. Wewant a halt to the practice untilweseeclearevidencethatfracking reallyissafe, poses no threat to humanhealth; our land, water or level of seismicactivity; and thatanybenefitsreallycouldoutweigh the costs.

13. Land Access Granting of a permit under the Crown Minerals Act 1991 does not give the permit holder an automatic right of access to any land. Access to land for petroleum: If an access arrangement is sought in respect of petroleum and cannot be obtained then an arbitrator is entitled to determine the access arrangement. Access to land for non-petroleum: If an access arrangement is sought in respect of non-petroleum minerals and cannot be obtained, there can only be arbitration if the Minister of Energy and the Minister for the Environment promulgate an order in council or if the owner occupier agrees to the appointment of the arbitrator. So for non-petroleum minerals the land owner has a form of “veto”. However there is provision for grounds of “public interest” to override the veto through an order in Council. Owners of Māori land have an absolute veto right over access.

16. Inflo-150 – a friction reducer containing methanol and ethylene glycol, both highly toxic, hazardous substances.

17. GBW-41L (Hydrogen peroxide) – an animal carcinogen harmful to humans even at low concentrations in vapour form. These chemical cocktails make up approximately 3% of the frack fluid. Crucially, minute quantities can cause serious health impacts.

20. TAG Oil are frackingnear Stratford at 1400-1800 metres. TAG also says the rock fractures up to 1500 feet (460m) in any direction so they are getting much closer to aquifers than the council claims.

22. What are the benefits? Local jobs Government royalties Landowners lease payments Maybe some fuel

24. Polluted land

25. Polluted underground aquifers

26. Polluted air

27. Toxic waste

28. Livestock, wildlife death and disease

29. Harm to human health (cancer, neurological disease, etc.)

30. Displaced communities

31. Huge pressure on scarce fresh water resources

32. Negative impact on farming and other industries

33. Other social, cultural, environmental costs

35. Lobby MPs to revoke the exploration permits and to repeal or change the Crown Minerals Act.

36. Request government and councils uphold the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal WAI796 Petroleum Report.

38. LOCK THE GATES! Deny industry access to your land and talk to other landowners and encourage them to revoke/deny access too.

40. Email: eastcoast@nodrilling.org.nz

41. Facebook:

42. East Coast vs. Apache Corp.