Comments on: Labour-ing in vain on water http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1175 What's new, funny, perplexing in Hawke's Bay Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:34:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Quentin Duthie http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1175/comment-page-1#comment-4819 Quentin Duthie Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:00 +0000 http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1175#comment-4819 Sticking to the water topic of this post, quietly hidden in National's RMA policy launch yesterday was a plan to halt the NPS on freshwater quality, and set up a Scandinavian-type 'collaborative governance' model. It may be useful, but what about the urgent and very real water crisis in the meantime? As Green Co-leader Russel Norman said, "National’s proposal to replace the water programme with collaborative governance – a process that may take years – would only help solve our water pollution crisis if accompanied by a moratorium on new discharge consents and water takes in sensitive catchments." http://www.greens.org.nz/node/19976 Sticking to the water topic of this post, quietly hidden in National’s RMA policy launch yesterday was a plan to halt the NPS on freshwater quality, and set up a Scandinavian-type ‘collaborative governance’ model. It may be useful, but what about the urgent and very real water crisis in the meantime?

As Green Co-leader Russel Norman said, “National’s proposal to replace the water programme with collaborative governance – a process that may take years – would only help solve our water pollution crisis if accompanied by a moratorium on new discharge consents and water takes in sensitive catchments.”
http://www.greens.org.nz/node/19976

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