16 September 2004

RMA-Some Improvements, But Still No Economic Growth Stimulus

“New Zealand’s Chambers of Commerce welcome the package of improvements to the Resource Management Act announced by the Government” said National Chambers Chairman John Lindsay today. “That said, we are disappointed that they have evidently shied away from ranking economic concerns alongside environmental ones in their review of the Act”.

Mr Lindsay was speaking at NZCCI’s national conference in Nelson.

“NZCCI continues to call for an economic growth test to be added to the RMA” said Mr Lindsay.

“In addition to the welcome improvements promised yesterday, in areas such as greater consistency of application and national policy guidelines, we need a growth – promoting requirement in the Act”.

“This will strike the balance that the Government is seeking, between a clean healthy environment and our expectations for growth and opportunity”.

ENDS

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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>>