The Daily Blog Open Mic – 17th July 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Pine monoculture, fireready, and why not have patches of rare trees, furniture, hardwood – hold onto them and don’t sell them to go overseas???? Trees are our friends – we may have to live in them instead of chopping them down. Tiny tree houses!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/522380/you-can-t-plant-your-way-out-of-this-problem-worry-at-government-s-pine-heavy-carbon-plan
Medical people still worthy of our honouring – push economists and Treasury and business found table out of your mind and let real gold settle there in reading about this guy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522321/the-kiwi-medical-pioneer-you-haven-t-heard-of
It seems that anybody can get on in NZ with hard work, even though their ‘written
english is not optimal’. “Hamish Reith and Ealing Farm Limited were fined $98,000 in the Nelson District Court for illegally felling indigenous forest.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522339/farmer-and-his-business-fined-98-000-after-clearing-native-bush-to-sell-as-firewood
…Investigations found around 4.39 hectares of native forest was felled from one property in 2020 and 5.36 hectares from the other between 2016 and 2023….
“Mr Reith’s written English is not optimal so he did rely on someone he trusted in terms of the person he bought the business off and had been diligently going about his business for a number of years, thinking he was complying.”
Williams described the operation as a “smaller mum and dad business” and said the court process had been stressful and unpleasant. The Reiths had since engaged with an ecologist to protect and enhance the remaining forest.
Acting for the Tasman District Council, lawyer Antoinette Besier said it was “simply not good enough” that the defendant did not know the rules.
“The defendant was a farmer but he was also running a commercial firewood business, so to rely on what he was told by the previous owner of the firewood business was not sufficient…
In a small area like Murchison people would know that trees were being cut illegally. Just sending an anonymous letter to each local councillor and posting them from Christchurch (to keep safe from local retaliation) would have opened it to scrutiny.