Showing exquisitely bad timing, National MP Jacqui Dean tries to put a shiny spin in dairy farming in Southland, right at a time when it's looking very murky indeed, highlighted by reports that the Waituna Lagoon is seriously threatened by the effects flowing from the dairy farms upstream.
Dean's comments are here but are barely worth the read, so shallow are they.
Far more pertinent are those of chief executive officer of Fish and Game New Zealand Bryce Johnston who's opinion piece in today's Southland Times goes straight to the heart of the crisis that is unfolding at Waituna. He lambastes 'Feds Southland dairy boss Vaughan Templeton for his comment that 'things need to be put in place' as typically vague and says intensive agriculture 'is becoming the country's cancer'.
His powerful warning is here (well, it would be had the ST put it online! Seems to be an oversight and I'll link to it when they put it up. Every other little news item is there, but not this...)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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