"National Ministers Carter and Wilkinson intervened to allow the continued grazing of land around Lake Ellesmere for a farming mate."
"This is a scandal. Ministers of Conservation and Agriculture influencing the decision to extend, on conservation land, a polluting grazing licence that DOC had told the farmer was not going to be renewed - meanwhile no consultation with iwi and the joint management plan for Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere), ignored.
Several blogs are reporting this morning on what appears to be cronyism or political interference around the extending of grazing rights for a farmer adjacent to Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora), an area DOC and Ngai Tahu have worked to clean up after serious degradation resulting from farming.
Red Alert has their view here and Mars2Earth here. The Standard takes an even dimmer view.
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I am starting to feel angry.
They are no flaming different to Labour.
Like Pepsi and Coke :-)
I am not having a good week Robert, I am having red neck tolerance issues.
Did you know that our cycle way is almost dead in the water? "Pie in the sky crap" says one councillor.
And now the West Coast development trust has decided the project has no merit and won't contribute what is required.
The stink of rats is overwhelming, the "old boys" are winning.
What is all the more frustrating is the govt has already agreed to pay half, these opportunities just don't come along that often.
I know people who have suffered that most of their adult lives Shunda!
By a curious and not-serindipitous co-incidence, a very similar comment was made just recently, by a 'councillor' here regarding Riverton's proposed cycleway. As a result, or co-incidentally, no funding was secured by the group who have proposed/scoped the cycleway.
I know you can't know for sure Shunda, but could you hazard a guess as to how your 'red-necked councillor will vote at the approaching general election? I know for sure which way our fly-in-the-ointment swings. Why I ask is to follow up with the question, what is it about 'party X' that appeals to these bores?
As it's 'that year', I'm going to be looking closely at which way people lean, and why.
Cycleways, btw, aren't the be-all and end-all when it comes to 'the environment' but they are a good guide to the treatement the wider world will receive. Ya reckon John Key genuinely feels that cycleways are worthwhile? Not using them as a sop for the people is he? A 'great idea' to showcase whenever the deeper environmental issues he and his party have to deal with are raised?
Nah! Couldn't be.
Well surprisingly (greystar tonight) our MP seems just as irritated, he appears to be out of step with "the old boys" on this one.
Our cycle way was to follow old tramlines etc, so would have minimal environmental impact for most of its length, which is why I like the idea so much.
I think some of those here that vote "party X" think said party will do miracles for them (like open cast mines in national parks), I think the reality is very different.
I think party X is just looking to play us for political capital like party y did once upon a time....
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