ECan became a monstrosity created by National that robbed people of real democratic say in Canterbury towards their environment so National’s farmer mates could molest the environment unimpeded.
We can see that corruption in the total destruction of the water quality since National made them a weapon for farmers to get what they want and the total incompetence of enforcing the weak regulations here are.
The joke incompetence by ECan at monitoring the theft of water by Chinese bottling company…
Controversial Christchurch water bottling plant under fire after label claims product is from 200m underground
A controversial water bottling plant in Christchurch is being asked to ‘please explain’ after leaked images of its product packaging claim its water comes 200 meters underground.
The problem is Cloud Ocean Water only has permission to take millions of water a day from a bore – which is just 33 metres deep.
…and this sickening monstrosity…
Massive NZ feedlot non-compliant for months
The Five Star Beef feedlot in Ashburton, owned by ANZCO, can farm up to 19,000 cattle on less than one square kilometre.
It has been there since 1991 and has been required to submit an report to Environment Canterbury (ECan) since at least 2005.
But its 2017 report was missing several key measures.
ECan’s Ashburton zone lead Janine Holland said: “Annual volumes of manure they’re applying per hectare and its location on site, groundwater quality, monitoring of bores, and current and proposed management practices for the feedlot.”
Ms Holland, despite having intimate knowledge of the feedlot’s consent, said she didn’t know why Five Star Beef had omitted the data.
…and while the corrupt ECan are being forced to reform by Labour, look at the way ECan are trying to manipulate things again…
Greenpeace slams ECan’s new plan as anti-democratic
In a scathing submission Greenpeace has labelled ECan’s new proposal for representation in the 2019 elections as “anti-democratic” and “grossly unbalanced.”
In 2010 the National Government sacked democratically elected Councillors at the Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) and replaced them with Government appointed commissioners.
The commissioners are now being removed by the Labour-led government in time for 2019’s regional council elections.
In preparation, ECan has proposed a representation structure that sets out the number of Councillors to be elected by people living in different areas of Canterbury.
“ECan’s proposal for 2019 hugely over-represents rural voters and under-represents urban voters” says Greenpeace Campaigner Gen Toop.
“If ECan’s new plan goes ahead it would mean that the vote of a school teacher in Central Christchurch is worth 40% less than the vote of an irrigator in South Canterbury, “
The proposal suggests that South Canterbury will have a councillor to voter ratio of 1:30,600 and North Canterbury 1:37,900
Meanwhile the ratio in Central Christchurch will be 1:51,650 and in North East Christchurch 1:50,200.
“The proposal is so skewed towards giving more power to voters in rural canterbury than to voters in Christchurch that it actually breaches what is allowed under the Local Electoral Act.”
The proposal breaks what is known as the +/- 10% rule in the Act in four out of the seven proposed wards. As a result it must be treated as an appeal to the Act and referred to the Local Government Commission.
Greenpeace’s submission includes a litany of environmental crimes that the group says have gone hand in hand with the removal of democracy at ECan.
“Under the anti-democratic rule of nationally appointed commissioners ECan has given its consent to ecologically devastating irrigation and dairy conversion proposals” says Toop.
One of the examples given in Greenpeace’s submission is the consents granted without public notification by ECan for a mega-dairy farm just south of Lake Pukaki in the Mackenzie Basin.
Another example given is the revelation in 2016 that Canterbury irrigators were recorded taking hundreds of millions of litres of water above their entitlements. ECan issued few fines and there were no prosecutions. The vast majority were not punished at all.
“For the last eight years, without the consent of the people of Canterbury, ECan has relentlessly served the interests of the irrigation and dairy industries over the interests of clean, safe water and all those who rely on it,” says Toop.
“Canterbury is now in a freshwater crisis. A return to full and fair democracy at ECan is urgent and is a critical part of reigning in the dairy industry and cleaning up the region’s rivers.”
…ECan are scum and they are the enemies of the environment. Surely the time is now for this National Party mutation to be stamped out and the entire fiasco reset so that protecting the environment is the main issue and not giving polluters whatever they want.
It is time to stop sacrificing New Zealand’s future on the alter of dairy.
I have no idea why Labour is allowing it to continue
Labour & Greens especially Eugenics Sage are FOS when it comes to the Environment all talk and no do IMHO.
+100 to this POST!
There needs to be a Commission of Inquiry into ECAN
How about this ‘conspiracy’ theory?…for a Commission of Inquiry into ECAN:
ECAN caused the massive earthquake under Christchurch and all the other big and small earthquakes in the underground Waimakariri River catchment areas for over a period of a year… by allowing too much water for dairying to be sucked out of the Christchurch hinterland and underground aquifers ?
(Waimakariri River which flows from the Alps and includes the Darfield dairy area and flows under Christchurch and also underground north out to Kaiapoi and south to Ellesmere and out to sea…all areas of multiple earthquakes)
( as far as I know this theory has never been formally researched and examined by government appointed scientists…although it has been suggested by a number of people including farmers….and any kid playing with water in a sandpit would consider it a possibility)
Red Buzzard I floated that theory at the time just being sarcastic, just a gut feeling at the time, the lack of water seeping into the substrate may be affecting the cooling processes down below ???
Christchurch is supposed to have sunk
Yes it is all coming out now not just the social damage done to our country the environmental damage and it shows the gnats are all about the money.
What the fuck are all you clowns doing about this stuff? Nothing but Whining.
whining is a good start
Whining is therapy. Words are cheap.
whine whine
chorus
Sounds like a song. Can I join in?
Prime example of a pathetic bunch of little kiddies getting their bully boy jollies, looking forward to a little samsong.
lol…JOHNNYBG….whine whine…..we don’t know how lucky we are….whine whine ( falsetto)
…opera?
Maybe that should be “we don’t know how whiney we are”.
whine whine…”we dont know how whiney we are”
chorus
‘ECan are scum and they are the enemies of the environment’
All regional councils are enemies of the environment, Martyn. They all promote unsustainability and call it development.
This is how the citizens of Havelock North Hawkes Bay got sick, Council’s need to prosecute and if they don’t they should be prosecuted for negligence ??? No regulations or regulators in NZ just a bunch of F%&ken Cowboys IMHO
A shop keeper in New Brighton told me that in his opinion there was fracking off the coast of New Brighton before the big earthquakes…is this true?
….if so, was ECAN responsible ?
… or did it come under some other government authorisation?
Have been US vessels offshore doing seismic testing, I think the Amazon Warrior was seismic testing in the area prior to the Kaikoura Earthquake, however I can not be sure. You would have to get hold of the vessels movements at the time of the Earthquake ???
Need for Commission of Inquiry
Its simple .
Dump ECan and restore a more democratic and expertise rich body who have a mandate for long term environmental care of the area and the restoration of damage done to date.
A return to democracy with each vote having the same value would help a lot. Unfortunately because there is little party representation in local government and no party whipping people find it very hard to know what their representatives stand for.
It’s not just ECAN. The Green party supported to of CCC’s sitting councillors. Green policy is not to sell assets. Both those councillors have been making remarks supporting asset sales. But with no whip to enforce party solidarity and little clear reporting of any council, the people are hamstrung when it comes to voting. One Green activist criticised KOA Canterbury for an advertisement showing who on CCC was voting to sell assets, he said it was a personal attack.
We need people to be nosy parkers and get involved and not just in a NIMBY situation
Has any one seen “How ECan fell to the irrigators” by KERRY BURKE
Has any one seen “How ECan fell to the irrigators” by KERRY BURKE
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