No Right Turn

Twenty years ago I joined a protest march over the Manawatū River. Fonterra and local farmers were using the river as a sewer , making it o...

What is going on with the price of butter? , RNZ , 19 march 2025: If you have bought butter recently you might have noticed something - it ...

Farmers are New Zealand's worst polluters. As Newsroom pointed out this week , they're responsible for 50% of emissions, while only...

The planning process under the RMA is meant to be one of public consultation: the council prepares a plan, and we all get to have a say on i...

Stuff today reports on the annual stats on dirty dairying prosecutions, and finds that most environmental crime is committed by repeat offe...

Newsroom 's Marc Daalder has a look today at agricultural emissions, and concludes that pricing livestock pollution is reasonable, roote...

Last week, Labour grovelled to the sacred cow , releasing an agricultural emissions plan which was basicly a plan to subsidise their emissio...

The way kiwi farmers complain, you'd think their situation of being a country's largest polluters was unique and special. But its no...

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...

DairyNZ has released a survey of farmers, and apparently calling them on their pollution is bad for their mental health : More than half of...

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...

Another day, another story arguing that climate change is Just Too Hard for farmers, and that they should be given more time to wait for a m...

RNZ this morning has a piece asking Can NZ really meet its methane emissions targets? . Posing it as a question like this frames it as diff...

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...

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...

New Zealand farmers routinely complain about the public viewing them as environmental vandals. At the same time, they're opposing basic ...