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Wednesday, 9 June, 2004

Copeland disputes Conservation Minister's legal position

United Future's Gordon Copeland today disputed Conservation Minister Chris Carter's interpretation of his own Act, after Mr Carter claimed that the Dobson Dam power proposal could not proceed because it involves part of the Card Creek ecological area.

"My reading is that the Conservation Act is fairly straightforward. It both allows the Minister to declare an ecological area and to vary or revoke that purpose. So where is the problem?"

The legal position is covered under Section 18 of the Conservation Act 1987. Subsection 1 creates an ecological area and subsection 7 permits its revocation.

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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>>