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Wednesday 24 February 2021 | Written by Gerald McCormack | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I would like to comment on the various Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) criticisms (Cook Islands News, February 20) of my article about the possible impacts of seabed mining on nodule-associated benthic megafauna (Cook Islands News, February 11), writes Gerald McCormack of Natural Heritage Trust.
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kelvin passfield on 24/02/2021
I want to clarify that our article was not anonymous. I emailed Gerald before submitting our article to let him know we had issues with several of his points and would therefore be replying in the newspaper. I also said I hoped he would not take it personally. I received a cordial response from him. I could have put my name to the article but it also had input from a number of other Te Ipukarea Society members, so we signed off as TIS. We regret that Gerald has perceived our response as a personal attack on him - it was not. Our main issue, as stated clearly in our article, was that the Seabed Minerals Authority shared, in a post they paid to promote, his opinion and conclusions, which we believe are flawed, without first having them vetted by deep-sea scientists.