Whangarei Maori say the benefits reaped from the Marsden Point oil refinery are drying up.
Hundreds of jobs are set to go next year when the refinery changes to an import terminal. The speed of change at the refinery, which the company said just last year might not take place till 2036, is upsetting iwi.
The Patuharakeke Te Iwi Trust Board spokesperson Juliane Chetham says iwi did not get a vote on the change, which compounds their historic loss of land and water resources.