https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/131519960/thousands-of-birds-die-at-important-wetland-from-deadly-disease-caused-by-pollution
There are been some discussion about co-magement of rivers and wetlands recently. However it does look like things are not going well here.
Note the comment regarding the iwi leaders (and others) not turning
up to the meetings as there is no ticket to clip.
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Ngāti Naho said it wants “answers not excuses”.
“We are tired of the hui with consultants that lack follow-through
or hollow speeches from iwi leaders or mayors that go nowhere,”
Ngāti Naho Trust chief executive Haydn Solomon said.
“Our waterways are getting hammered. Our wetlands, lakes,
rivers and springs are at breaking point, yet nothing substantive
and meaningful is done.”
"Water is the source of life on Earth, so why are we poisoning it?"
He is cynical about consultation exercises. “Sometimes you are
lucky if the local or iwi officials show up to the meeting
at all on the waterways.
“But when it comes to the big flash infrastructure projects
like the Auckland to Hamilton [transport] corridor, high-density
housing, solar farms, expansion of the rubbish dump, or taking
more water and sand from our river for Auckland they are all
there to clip the ticket.''
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