Media Release Mackenzie Guardians’ welcome Labour’s halt to High Country Tenure Review 19 October 2011 Mackenzie Guardians endorse Labour’s policy on halting South Island High Country tenure review. The Guardians are concerned that the National Government is ignoring the conservation values of[...]
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September 21st, 2011 - 11:04 pm § in Uncategorized
Christchurch Earthquake delays Mackenzie decision
Because the paperwork is locked up in the red zone, the Christchurch earthquake has delayed the Commissioners decisions about the Mackenzie hearings. Paul Rogers said on behalf of The Commissioners in a memo on the 4th of April that the Canterbury earthquake of 4 September 2010, and the significant [...]
April 8th, 2011 - 10:17 pm § in Uncategorized
losing our commons;protect Maryburn Station
Media Release – Losing our commons/protect the Wolds and Maryburn ————————————————————————————————R[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 12:34 pm § in Uncategorized
losing our commons/protect the Wolds
SUBMISSION ON PRELIMINARY TENURE REVIEW PROPOSAL FOR THE WOLDS STATION PASTORAL LEASE High country landscapes are a national taonga (treasure). They are important to all New Zealanders. At the moment it is crown land and so it belongs to all of us. The lakesides need to be preserved for everyone to [...]
February 27th, 2011 - 9:55 pm § in Uncategorized
Make a submission against privatisation of Maryburns and the Wolds Stations
Dear Everyone, I hope that this email finds you and your family and friends well and ok. I know this is not the perfect time to be doing submissions or water stuff, but water matters and Land Tenure Review matters in the Mackenzie are not going to stop because of our situation in Christchurch. This [...]
December 10th, 2010 - 7:14 am § in Uncategorized
Stop tenure review and environmental death by a thousand cuts in the Mackenzie Country
Sympsosium participants on the field trip on 26th november We do not have a vision for the Mackenzie Country area. At the moment it is being carved up piece by piece under tenure review. The government has signalled we do not have the funds to continue to acquire land for the Conservation estate so [...]
November 19th, 2010 - 4:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Mackenzie Country Symposium/ love,love me do
Just a reminder to register for the Mackenzie Country Symposium At the Twizel Events Centre 26-27 November, 2010. The Mackenzie Guardians recently met with officials of Land Information NZ (LINZ) in Christchurch as we are concerned at the growth of intensive farming in the Mackenzie Basin and the im[...]
October 2nd, 2010 - 8:45 pm § in Uncategorized
cubicle dairy farmers secretly lodge fresh planning consents
MARK THIS SYMPOSIUM IN YOUR DIARY MACKENZIE LOVERS Mackenzie Basin Symposium Friday 26 – Saturday 27 November 2010 Twizel Events Centre The Environment Defence Society, in conjunction with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)[...]
August 27th, 2010 - 12:11 am § in Uncategorized
dear John letter from the people of Christchurch
Prime Minister John Key has sent out a leaflet to 120,000 Canterbury households seeking to justify firing the democratically elected councillors who ran the Environment Canterbury Regional Council (ECan). Who can say what this tick the boxes survey of this taxpayer-funded propaganda blaming Environm[...]
July 29th, 2010 - 7:16 pm § in Uncategorized
good news for Mackenzie Country
29 July 2010 Lets say NO to more of the kind of intensive development found in this photograph. Media Release:Environmental Defence Society: wins cubicle farming case in the Mackenzie Country The Environmental Defence Society has won a High Court case challenging cubicle dairy farming in the Mackenz[...]