New Zealand River Awards 2017 The Cawthron Foundation runs the NZ River Awards. These were established to draw attention to the state of New Zealand’s rivers, but more importantly, to…
WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL HEALTHY RIVERS PLAN CHANGE : 1 January 2017 So what is PC1? Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1(PC1) is the WRC’s response to…
PRIMARY LAND USERS GROUP: WORKING TOGETHER FOR GROWTH 10 November 2017 Fresh Food Out of ReachAmy Wiggins writes in the front page of the NZ Herald on Friday November 10th…
So now we have Globe-NZ commissioning an independent report on Greenhouse Gas emissions and they have come up with the following as the main policy recommendations to reduce NZ’s emissions….
Fruit & Vegetables to become Unaffordable Vegetable prices have risen a record 31 per cent in the past year, according to Statistics New Zealand. Our unusually wet weather this year…
Cutting a track through the forest of myopia and vested interests to the broad sunlit upland of a low-emissions future is a task that is neither scary nor infeasible. It…
Detrimental Effects of PC1 on Territorial Authorities The Maxim Institute claims that 44 out of 67 territorial authorities could be on the cusp of decline and suggests ‘communities’ should make a decision…
Some Facts about water A recent OECD survey (2014) measured the cleanliness of all major rivers that flow through farmland in OECD countries. Of the three New Zealand rivers measured,…
It is my contention that this article is stacked with half-truths and by that I mean that they have actually told the truth but only told the half…
Prepared for the Waikato Regional Council by Phil Journeaux, Darren McNae & James Allen; May 2019. The financial impact of the nitrogen cap was analysed across various aspects: (i) Impact…