Oh dear!
John Campbell featured the Waituna Lagoon on his show tonight and some people came out all covered in effluent.
The messiest was the hapless DairyNZ CEO, speaking from somewhere in Egypt (deep in denial), totally missing the point, the message and in action, if you can unravel all that. He was dreadfully out of the picture and will be in for a roasting when he rocks up at Environment Southland HQ tomorrow. How he could have it so wrong we may never know, going by the imperviousness of the three DairyNZ representatives who addressed the council today, seemingly unable to articulate any opinion at all that wasn't prefaced with 'the science isn't in yet, the science doesn't...the science, the science.
Ali Timms did her level best to not drop the council in the muck and partially succeeded, though a couple of the questions from the interviewer hung in the air a little longer than they should have. She has the difficult role of blurring the culpability of past councils whose decisions helped create the mess the lagoon is now in. Te Ao Marama's Dean Whanga didn't drop anyone in what he described as 'yucky' stuff, but then again, didn't express any outrage on behalf of tangata whenua, as I expected he might. Perhaps any rage was edited out, though Dean's a level-headed guy.
The emails that flew in were not supportive of the dairy industry, judging by those that Campbell read out and I'm guessing there will be some that didn't paint the ES councillors as heroes as well! No doubt some of those will make it to the letters to the editor column over the next few days.
The plot, like the water of the lagoon, thickens!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Oh no, I missed it! I'll have to watch it on line. It sounds like the heat is really going on the dairy industry.
I had no idea that the number of dairy cows in Southland had increased by such an astonishing number.
It is just incredible, sounds like you will have half a million cows down there very soon.
That is more pooze than a very large city!
It's well worth watching bsprout.
The lack of conviction from the DairyNZ boss was astonishing to watch. The programme was constructed in a way that made him look ridiculous. I'm looking froward to meeting him today and asking his views.
Shunda - the industry hopes to double those numbers in the near future - whadda ya reckon about that?
Apparently 'herd homes' and 'smart science' will provide the opportunity for expansion - it's the economy, the economy! Backbone etc...
More likely descending colon imho.
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