Category: Freshwater Policy

Government irrigation company tips RMA playing field

5/8/2016

10 July 2013
With the announcement of the formation of Crown Irrigation Investments Limited by Minister of Primary Industries Nathan Guy (‘IRRIGATION INVESTMENT COMPANY ESTABLISHED’ Beehive press release, 1 July 2013), the government has unashamedly put in place the machinery to tilt the regional planning playing field firmly in favour of economic development.

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I met a lovely man

3/8/2016

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16 October 2012
I met a lovely man on the train while travelling home from meetings in Wellington the other night. His name is Glyn and he has spent a lifetime trout fishing the rivers of New Zealand. Glyn started up our conversation when I sat down next to him. He said he was happy to get home from his trip to Australia and see some sheep, instead of all those dairy cows. Dairy cows, he told me, are mucking up ‘his’ rivers for fishing. Glyn told me about the many many years he has spent fishing, and the change he said he has seen to those rivers over that time.

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