Te Whanau-a-Apanui 1, PetroBras 0

Hasta la vista... or whatever it is in Portuguese.
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NBR:
Brazilian oil company Petrobras will hand back exploration licences it holds for deep sea oil and gas prospects in the Raukumara Basin, off East Cape, in what appears a reaction to a string of difficulties which have seen the global oil company report losses for the first time in 13 years.
Prime Minister John Key told the New Zealand Herald that the decision was "not a reflection on the capacity to undertake deep-sea drilling or the prospect of activity of that area".
The Raukumara Basin lies in very deep water off the east coast of the North Island and has barely been explored.
Petrobras contracted a seismic survey ship to undertake initial surveys of parts of the basin early last year, where it encountered stiff opposition from a protest flotilla organised by Greenpeace and a local Maori tribe, Te Whanau a Apanui.
The New Zealand Navy was despatched to ensure the seismic survey could continue.
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That's right, the government called out the NZ Navy against the local tangata whenua so that a big foreign corporate could survey their territory with a view to mining the frack out of it. So much for the environment... so much for the Treaty... so much for consultation. The captain who put his boat in the way "to do some fishing" and thus disrupted the surveying defended the charges of obstruction successfully in court on the basis that it occured outside the 12 nautical mile limit. This is a great precedent for future action. Well done to all those involved.