20,000 signatures reached
To: Minister Darragh O'Brien
Stop large corporations harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast
These application have been submitted to your department, you have the power to stop this.
Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, and Bioatlantis Ltd have put in applications to harvest huge amounts of wrack from swathes of the west coast. Maps are available here.
Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, and Bioatlantis Ltd have put in applications to harvest huge amounts of wrack from swathes of the west coast. Maps are available here.
Handing over seaweed rights to large corporations would leave communities with no input into how their land and environment was being treated. Seaweed forests are crucial for protecting communities and homes against coastal erosion, providing the bedrock of the food chains, being a nursery for fish populations, while also being a rich part of the heritage and folklore along the west coast.
We don't want our coastlines to be scraped clean of seaweed just so massive corporations can make profits.
We don't want our coastlines to be scraped clean of seaweed just so massive corporations can make profits.
Why is this important?
There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to show that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights given away to corporations.