Three Far North representatives are travelling to the head office of Statoil in Norway to express widespread opposition to oil exploration in the Te Reinga Basin.
Hinekaa Maako, Te Wani Otene and Mike Smith head off today representing Far North hapu and iwi and are seeking support from the indigenous Sami Parliament of Norway, who are shareholders in Statoil.
The group will travel to Statoil's company headquarters in time for their annual general meeting on May 19 to voice their opposition to oil exploration in Te Reinga Basin.
"We want to go there and show them images of protests in Northland, to say the New Zealand Government is confused about its authority to issue deep-sea oil permits in our territories and we are in Norway to tell Statoil they are not welcome here," Miss Maako said.