As per reports, one person has been arrested amid a Greenpeace protest outside the Wellington office of mining lobby group Straterra on Tuesday (24 September) which caused police to cordon off an office building. The activists were protesting Straterra’s plans to fast-track a seabed mining project for one of its clients, Trans-Tasman Resources, in the South Taranaki Bight.

The activists were protesting Straterra’s plans to fast-track a seabed mining project for one of its clients, Trans-Tasman Resources, in the South Taranaki Bight.