Ministry for the Environment Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    Cleaning up our country – toxic sites - by Catherine Delahunty



    The “100% Pure New Zealand” myth has long been busted but work to clean up the country has lagged behind for many years. This is partly because it costs real money to tackle our worst problems such as the roughly 20,000 contaminated sites across the country. One of the reasons I stood for Parliament was [...] read more
    May 26, 2011 9:06 am - 5 Comments
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    OIA laughs for a Friday afternoon - by frog



    I’ve been enjoying Idiot/Savant’s posts over at No Right Turn about his ongoing battles trying to get various Ministers in John Key’s Government to respond adequately to his OIA requests. I’ve had a couple of classics myself this week. read more
    September 24, 2010 2:54 pm - 6 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Mapua Contamination – Secrets and Lies - by Catherine Delahunty



    This week a Ministry of Health Report came out on the health effects of the dubious remediation at the toxic site in Mapua. The way the Ministry of Health’s media release read, glossed over the risks to the community, which could now be declared negligible. I only had to read the Executive Summary of the [...] read more
    March 18, 2010 10:47 am - 6 Comments
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    Yet another job for feminism to solve - by frog



    Treehugger notes that women managers make greener business decisions: Put that in the context of New Zealand and Human Rights Commission’s 2008 Census of Women’s Participation [pdf], which shows that 8.65% of directors in New Zealand’s top hundred listed companies are women. This comprises 54 female directorships held by 45 women out of the total of 624 [...] read more
    July 19, 2008 8:09 am - 27 Comments
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    Does the left hand have any idea what the right hand is doing? - by frog



    Do Treasury and the Reserve Bank know that the Ministry for the Environment is talking about Peak Oil on this webpage?  So, to be accurate, it’s really the right hand that doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.Now, should Cabinet get rid of the offending web page, or should it pay $50 dollars and [...] read more
    March 17, 2008 9:20 am - 2 Comments
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    Agriculture Ministry fingered for pulling controversial chapter - by frog



    No Right Turn has unleashed the Official Information Act on the Ministry for the Environment to find out more about the controversially omitted Chapter 13 of the Environment 2007 Report.  No Right Turn’s conclusion; it was the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that objected to the chapter. Apparently it as unhappy at the way farming [...] read more
    March 14, 2008 7:44 pm - 2 Comments
  • frog

    The mischievous chapter 13 - by frog



    Gordon Copeland has just accused the Greens of ‘mischief making‘ after they revealed the existence of a suppressed summary chapter to the Ministry for the Environment’s ‘State of the Environment’ report, released two weeks ago.  The Greens had been arguing that the Report’s summary, with its important policy implications, should have been included.Copeland, who apparently [...] read more
    February 11, 2008 3:27 pm - 4 Comments
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    The mysterious chapter 13 - by frog



    Unluckily for the Environment its health report from ten days ago was missing a summarising, concluding chapter – the elusive chapter 13. The Ministry for the Environment intended to publish this chapter until some time late last year when it was pulled.Russel says of the report: Chapter 13 points to industrial dairy as the largest [...] read more
    February 10, 2008 3:14 pm - 39 Comments
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    Joining the dots - by frog



    You’d think from listening to Radio New Zealand news this morning that something was going on.  First Al Gore collects his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, and says we face a  ”planetary emergency“.  “Without realising it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself.  It is time to make peace with the planet”. [...] read more
    December 11, 2007 9:12 am - 63 Comments
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    How petty can Nick get? - by frog



    Nick Smith posted a press release today calling the government’s climate change initiatives a failure because the Ministry for the Environment’s emissions grew from 735 tonnes CO2e in 2005/06 to 897 tonnes in 2006/07, mostly as a result of increased air travel associated with, <shock & horror>, their climate change and environmental work. Yaaaaawn. Is [...] read more
    November 16, 2007 5:24 pm - 16 Comments