Media release Primary Production Committee

Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill

The Primary Production Committee is inviting public submissions on the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill. The closing date for submissions is Friday, 8 February 2002.

This bill imposes a moratorium on new aquaculture activities in coastal marine areas. The moratorium applies retrospectively from 28 November 2001 and will expire two years after the data on which it comes into force or upon the introduction of an approved coastal plan.

The objective is to provide regional councils with the opportunity, during the moratorium, to include rules in their regional coastal plans to properly manage the extent of aquaculture, in the same way as land use zones are currently written into a region s plans.

Those wishing to give oral evidence should contact Bob Bunch as early as possible in January 2002, prior to sending their written submission.

Copies of the bill can be purchased from Bennetts Government Bookshops.

The committee requires 20 copies of each submission. Those wishing to include any information of a private or personal nature in a submission should first discuss this with the clerk of the committee, as submissions are usually released to the public by the committee. Those wishing to appear before the committee to speak to their submissions should state this clearly and provide a daytime telephone contact number. For further guidance on making a submission, our publication Making a Submission to a Parliamentary Select Committee can be found on our web site at www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz.

Submissions should be addressed as follows:

Bob Bunch

Primary Production Committee Secretariat

Parliament House

WELLINGTON

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>