No Right Turn

A ballot for a single Member's Bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Resource Management (Prohibition on Extraction ...

The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill ....

"Abuse of democracy" seems to be the emerging theme of this government, with bills rammed through under urgency or given pathetica...

On Monday, we learned that Queenstown, one of the country's largest tourist destinations, suddenly had to boil its water to avoid crypto...

Last week, Parliament passed a rare entrenchment clause, protecting water assets from being sold by future governments without a referendum....

Last week, Labour put the House into urgency to push on with its legislative agenda . Part of this included the committee stage of the three...

People being told to drink sewage sounds like a headline from the early nineteenth century, before the public health revolution, or from a f...

A society is offered a choice: they can have prosperity (for some), but 40 people a year will be sacrificed to please the cow-god. No, its n...

The Netherlands has a water quality problem . Too many cows, producing too much shit and piss, which flows into the rivers and poisons them....

More than a decade ago, the then-National government overthrew the elected Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) and imposed a Wellington-appoi...

Farmers are protesting today, invading cities with tractors and utes in protest against water and climate change policy. The core message of...

Nitrous Oxide is a potent greenhouse gas, 265 times worse per ton than carbon dioxide. Its also long-lived, with a half-life of 121 years in...

Nitrates are a serious public health threat, posing a risk of death for babies and a long-term risk of bowel cancer for adults . Farmers ar...

Last year, the government chickened out on clean rivers , setting "water standards" that failed to properly control poisonous nitr...

Yesterday, Silver Fern Farms was fined $337,000 over a potentially lethal ammonia leak . Today RNZ reports that they've subcontracted s...

Back in 2018, National's unelected Canterbury dictatorship issued a resource consent to take water from the Rangitata river for irrigati...

Farmers complain about being seen as environmental vandals . Meanwhile, down in Southland, they're doing this : Southland farmers will ...

Farmers are whining that new freshwater rules designed to stop them shitting in rivers or polluting the water table with nitrogen will mean ...

Farmers feel New Zealand has turned its back on them , Stuff , 13 September 2019: A young Wairarapa farmer's voice starts to crack when...

For decades, the government has elided its Treaty obligations over water by claiming that no-one owns it (except, in practice, farmers). But...