The first warning shot has been fired across the bows of our
own Environment Southland council by Agriculture Minister
David Carter, speaking at the Irrigation New Zealand
conference in Christchurch yesterday. Carter showed exactly
who is calling the shots over themanagement of our environment,
especially our water resource saying,"I would have thought what
happened recently with Environment Canterbury
would be a signal to all regional councils to work a bit more
constructively with their farmer stakeholders."
In other words, don't oppose farmer's schemes to use rivers for
irrigation or you'll face dismissal by the Government.
The council of Environment Southland must not allow
themselves to be bullied in this way.
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