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Kōrero: Hydroelectricity

Manapōuri protest

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Manapōuri protest

When the government proposed raising the level of Lake Manapōuri it provoked New Zealand’s largest conservation protest movement. Christine Foxall of the Royal Forest and Bird Society holds forms signed by people opposed to the proposal, which were arriving at a rate of 4,000 to 5,000 a day. They were presented to Parliament.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1970/0489/26A-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John E. Martin, Hydroelectricity – Hydro and the environment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22474/manapouri-protest (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John E. Martin, i tāngia i te 20 April 2010.