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Maori Council Claim on Geothermal Resources Struck Down (New Zealand Herald‎ )

Tino Rangatiratanga flag
The “national Maori flag”
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The Maori Council will reveal within days whether it will take its legal bid to delay the sale of Mighty River Power directly to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal after the High Court ruled against it yesterday.

The High Court's Justice Ronald Young comprehensively rejected the Maori Council's case in his judgement released yesterday.

In a three day High Court hearing late last month in Wellington the council argued the Government should establish the extent of Maori ownership rights over freshwater and geothermal resources and make redress for them before the partial sale of Mighty River and other power companies under its "mixed ownership model".

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