Glenys Dickson #1 04:12 pm Feb 15 2011
Thank you Mr Tullet. Great to have some straight talking on the Waituna Lagoon issue. Our Territorial Authorities need to be held accountable. It is not just the Waituna Lagoon that is under threat. Why are we allowing intensive deer and dairy farming along the Upukaroa River that runs directly into Lake Te Anau??. Development of native vegetation on hill country that protects water quality.(Glenys is Bill English's 'office person' at the Gore electorate office)
Dave #8 12:53 pm Feb 15 2011
Oliver - good job! Keep on planting! That is a different issue altogether, but it is great to protect the riparian zone. Re- finances to F&G - great smokescreen Kevin! Bring out the fact that your great forebearers worked the land and maybe drop in stories of meat pies too... anything to skirt the issue. Now, high nutrient loading is a completely different issue. Key point - trout are simply an indicator species of the ecosystem. If the ecosystem goes so far downhill that the aquatic plant and insect life is decimated, trout suffer. By that point, you have serious, long term impacts. New Zealand is teetering on a serious precipice - to continue to issue permits perpetually in a 'do anything for profit' ideal, or take heed of the bigger issue - long term cumulative impacts and determine if they are acceptable. Remember, if water isn't clean enough for trout, how long until it is not fit for humans, and what end result does that bring? New Zealand is no longer the green country it sells foreginers. With tourism being such a high factor in GDP, you might want to consider that. And, in the international communinty, if you are perceived to be a rape and pillage country, it won't take too much longer under current methods until boycotts begin. Give it 10 years at the rate of environmental over use and destruction. And once that worm turns, it will be generations before it comes back.
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