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Mike Joy welcomes swimmable rivers across NZ pledge – RNZ Morning Report
A new government plan is aiming at healthy, swimmable rivers and lakes throughout the country within five years. Environment Minister David Parker released a blueprint for improving water quality yesterday. Freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy has been a strong critic of the country’s water quality. Now he is a member of the new science and technical advisory group announced along with the plan yesterday. He talks to Guyon Espiner.
‘Life-altering’ changes needed to avoid the worst of climate change – Charlie Mitchell & Leith Huffadine, Stuff
Dr Bronwyn Hayward, associate professor at the University of Canterbury.
Life as we know it will need to change if the world is to limit global warming to a level that will prevent its worst effects – and it will need to change quickly.
DOC spends thousands investigating scientist – Newsroom, David Williams
The Department of Conservation has spent more than $20,000 on external consultants in the case of a scientist who was suspended after photos he sent to conservation groups were passed to the media……..
As revealed by Newsroom in July, Christchurch-based ecologist Nick Head was suspended after photos of work on an irrigation pipeline he sent to conservation groups Environmental Defence Society and Forest & Bird were then sent to the media.
Dr Mike Joy: Clean green NZ? Yeah, Nah! – NZ Herald
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Congratulations, New Zealand, we’re number one. No country in the developed world is trashing its rivers as fast or as thoroughly as we are.
Ministerial advice doctored – Newsroom, David Williams
Forest & Bird says the Conservation Minister has been misled by her own department, after a manager doctored scientific advice she requested on the Mackenzie Basin.
Simons Pass – What’s the story – Environment Canterbury website
Simons Pass Station is a high-country farm at the southern end of Lake Pukaki. It is made up of both freehold land and the Simons Pass Crown pastoral lease.
New Zealand needs to get rid of up to a fifth of livestock methane emissions to stop more global warming – Stuff, Henry Cooke & Gerard Hutching
Protesters demand stop to dairy farm development – Otago Daily Times, Tim Miller
Protesters dressed as cows.
About 100 environmental activists from Greenpeace and Oil Free Otago were joined by members of the public as they marched up Stuart St to the office of Dunedin accountant Murray Valentine, who plans to build a 4500ha dairy farm at Simon’s Pass near Twizel.
Green light for Mackenzie station tourism plans – Newsroom, David Williams
Plans for a new tourist facility at a foreign-owned high country station near Lake Pukaki have sailed through planning permission.