National last minute change to pollute our water for their Farmer mates
FFS!
The Green Party says the Government has handed companies “a free pass to pollute”, with a law change to make it easier to send waste down rivers.
Parliament voted on Thursday to approve the second phase of the Government’s Resource Management Act amendments.
At the 11th hour, just a few days before Parliament was set to debate the bill, Resource Management Minister Chris Bishop introduced an amendment to allow farmers to pollute streams and rivers to the extent that the water colour would change.
By giving councils the ability to approve pollution that would cause the “conspicuous change in the colour or visual clarity” of freshwater, Bishop went beyond his initial proposal to make some pollution a “permitted activity” that won’t require resource consents.
Once again our water gets polluted and shat in to appease the bloody Farmers!
The pollution created by intensive farming is leeching into the water and causing those communities to get sick and the refusal to do anything about that pollution means the consequences follow the next generation…
Greenpeace extends invitation to Gore District Mayor to work together on drinking water crisis
…watching those communities scream at environmentalists as they get sicker because the environmentalists are right would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
In totally unrelated news, Environment Canterbury has approved dairy conversions for over 15,000 additional cows in six months because no matter what the question is in NZ, the answer is always, ‘More cows’.
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Why are ruining this country for dairy farmers? Again tourism dwarfs the earnings that come from milk powder so it doesn’t make economic sense to degrade things further. That’s the money argument if you are too much of an arsehole to care about the environment. Despite the propaganda NZ doesn’t do that well if dairy farmers do well. We just get shafted.