Invitation for comments
On 31 August 2026, the Barrytown Minerals Project expert panel released Minute 2, recording their decision on which parties are to be invited to comment.
Minute 2 of the expert panel (PDF, 1.4 MB)
The closing date for comments was 28 September 2026.
Information about commenting on a Fast-track consenting application
Comments received
Adjacent land owners and occupiers
Administering agencies
- Department of Conservation (PDF, 963 KB)
- Appendix A – Lizards (PDF, 243 KB)
- Appendix B – Avifauna (PDF, 315 KB)
- Appendix C – Freshwater (PDF, 288 KB)
- Appendix D – Wetlands (PDF, 263 KB)
- Appendix E – Planning (PDF, 251 KB)
- Appendix F – Resource Consent Conditions (PDF, 1 MB)
- Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (PDF, 497 KB)
Application land owners and occupiers
Local authorities
Ministers of the Crown
Requiring authority
Specified approvals
Other parties considered appropriate by the expert panel
- Barrytown School (PDF, 2 MB)
- Chanelle van Rooyen (PDF, 122 KB)
- Chris Cromey (PDF, 273 KB)
- Chris Esther (PDF, 79 KB)
- Coast Road Resilience Group (CRRG) (PDF, 834 KB)
- Attachment 1 – Comments to the expert panel (PDF, 1 MB)
- Attachment 2 – Barrytown radiation geophysical assessment (PDF, 855 KB)
- Attachment 3 – Economic benefits analysis (PDF, 269 KB)
- Attachment 4 – Lighting, light pollution, glare and potential effects on nocturnal wildlife (PDF, 407 KB)
- Attachment 5 – Wetlands and hydrology (PDF, 255 KB)
- Attachment 6 – Amendments to proposed resource conditions (DOCX, 2 MB)
- Attachment 6 – Amendments to proposed resource conditions (PDF, 1 MB)
- Don Kerr (PDF, 989 KB)
- Attachment 1 – Canoe Creek Conservation Project (CCCP) Planting Plan (PDF, 51 KB)
- Ian Collyer (PDF, 125 KB)
- Katherine Crick (PDF, 3 MB)
- Kirsty Henderson (PDF, 236 KB)
- Linda Grace (PDF, 513 KB)
- Matthew Zubowski and Andrea Thompson (PDF, 122 KB)
- Michael Hill (PDF, 117 KB)
- Office of Radiation Safety (PDF, 267 KB)
- Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PDF, 203 KB)
- Rose Erickson (PDF, 100 KB)
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand (Forest and Bird) (PDF, 6 MB)
- Attachment 1 – Legal submissions (PDF, 3 MB)
- Attachment 2 – Avifauna expert evidence (PDF, 1 MB)
- Suzanne Hills (PDF, 326 KB)
- Attachment 1 – s42 Officer's Report (PDF, 1 MB)
- Tammy Ward (PDF, 189 KB)
- Tristan Bennett (PDF, 181 KB)
- West Coast Penguin Trust (PDF, 121 KB)
- Westland Petrel Conservation Trust (PDF, 429 KB)
- Wolfgang Jager Family Trust (PDF, 3 MB)
Applicant's response to comments received
- Memorandum on behalf of Tāiko Critical Minerals Limited (PDF, 311 KB)
- Attachment A – Applicant responses to relevant comments from Adjacent Owners and Occupiers, Administering Agencies, LA's, Mins of the Crown, Requiring Auths & Spec Approvals (PDF, 3 MB)
- Attachment B – Applicant responses to comments from other parties considered appropriate by the expert panel (PDF, 4 MB)
- Attachment C – Applicant responses to comments seeking changes to conditions of resource consent (PDF, 14 MB)
- Attachment C1 – Conditions showing tracked changes (PDF, 1 MB)
- Attachment D – Applicant responses to comments seeking changes to conditions of wildlife approval (PDF, 135 KB)
- Attachment D1 – Applicant proposed wildlife authority conditions with tracked changes showing amendments made (PDF, 182 KB)
- Attachment E – Reply Statement Jon Farren (Noise) (PDF, 246 KB)
- Attachment F – Reply Statement David Bougourd (Radiation) (PDF, 166 KB)
- Attachment G – Reply Statement Jens Rekker (Hydrology) (PDF, 208 KB)
- Attachment H – Reply Statement Dr Bramley (Ecology) (PDF, 288 KB)
- Attachment H1 – Avian Management Plan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Attachment H2 – Lizard Management Plan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Attachment I – Reply Statement Richard Montgomerie (Freshwater) (PDF, 130 KB)
- Attachment J – Reply Statement Dr Fitzpatrick (Water Quality) (PDF, 132 KB)
- Attachment K – Reply Statement John Ballingall (Economics) (PDF, 155 KB)
- Attachment L – Reply Statement Pier Federici (Mine Planning) (PDF, 1 MB)
- Attachment M – Reply Statement Andrew Hurley (Geotechnical) (PDF, 195 KB)