by Russel Norman
OK, I haven’t actually done that much rafting lately. But I did visit some dirty rivers, in particular the Awanui which supplies Kaitaia. You can read about it here.
And if you want to hear about the classic case of a community getting shafted by dirty farming – read this one, which Don Nicholson from the Feds has agreed to help me fix.
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on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Surely this situation can be sorted legally and effectively? Properly filed complaints to TA’s require action, under the RMA.
The Northland Regional Council seems to have been neglecting its statutory responsibilities.
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Someone needs to leak the yacht owner’s name. Michael Barnett seems to know him.
While he’s swanning around the world, take the fence offered by the Council (that will have even less power from 1 Nov 2010) put it in with the free labour offered; when the sheister returns have the 20 – 30 children lined up along the fence with their bottles of filthy, disease ridden water, fetch in a media person, who would love to raise the current lowly profile of NZ media, and snap the whole group including the farmer practising a type of child abuse.
Failing all that, use the suck and blow method and siphon all the dirty water into his tanks or whatever he uses.
So much for the wonderful rural community propaganda; so much for Fonterra wanting to avoid another child abuse tag; so much for David Carter who is still contemplating (don’t be fooled here)cow cubicle farming, live sheep exports, bad pig cage(stall) legislation, oh so slow battery chicken cages phase-out.
I hope someone has written to Key. I’ll be putting this in my little black book of Key doodoos, for the next election. I should have bought a bigger little black book!
PS Good debate yesterday. Even Nicholson seemed a little less exuberant and more willing to work with other sections of society.
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PM Watcher – do you make a connection between live sheep shipments-to-come and the attempts being made by foreign companies to buy up swathes of farmland here in NZ, especially Soouthland?
I do.
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Hi Greenfly
I saw that piece featuring the land owner who was most upset that he was running sheep but could not export them live. It was obvious he had been promised future exporting rights for live sheep.
How many land buyers have already slipped through the net? I’d be interested to know if buyers have to notify their land use before purchase but automatically lose the land (under future legislation) if not used as agreed to. Then, we would have a profile of New Zealand future farming plans and a safeguard against these animal abusers sneaking through, given the easy purchases allowed by the Overseas Investment Office, which rubberstamps overseas buyers’ purchases.
The Green’s insightful piece ‘Secrecy and Vested Interests Drive Investment Rules Shake-up’ on the hidden agendas of the so-called ‘objective’ reviewers of the shoddy guidelines this government were pushing for last year uncovered a cesspit of cronyism and betrayal of everything that is good about New Zealand. Have the Greens done an update?
The 5 lawyers who reviewed it,
((as reported by the Greens, and used in the Honourable Murray Horton’s CAFCA August 2009 ‘Asleep at the Wheel – Government’s Foreign Investment “Oversight” Policy’ report (BIG PLUG TO CHECK OUT http://www.cafca.org SITE AND DONATE IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT))
will no doubt be reaching for rich pickings in the ECan cow cubicles set up (no, I don’t believe it’s over yet). I’m sure I spotted Russell McVeagh’s name on one of those letters to seek effluent rights for the cow cubicle farms.
What is even more worrying is that there seems to be no ‘humane’ link up in the brain of these people (allies of National and Act) that they see nothing wrong with this behaviour. A greed gene should be sought out in every National/Act supporter and dealt to.
The Greed Gene actively prevents the natural production of the humane gene.
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Some property ownes can be very territirial whe it comes to fixing the effects of their activities. Some concervatives like to see themselves as Islands and not answerable to the wider community.
To Bushbasher? A little confused as to your comments. Are you requiring action from the TA’s or the NRC? Seems to me th reponsibility lies with the land owner.
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