6 Nov 2011

Te Ahi Kaa mo 6 Whiringa a Rangi (November) 2011

From Te Ahi Kaa , 6:00 pm on 6 November 2011

When your supermarket is the ocean and the ocean becomes poisoned, what do you do? Well, you mobilise of course - which is what happened when a grounded ship started to leak oil into the sea off the coast of Tauranga at the beginning of October. Justine Murray joined the effort 9 days later and reports on Operation Rena gaining an Iwi, Hapu and whanau perspective at what is being described as New Zealand's worst ecological disaster to date.

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