Government’s announcement on RMA reforms expected tomorrow
Friday, 9 August 2013, 3:42 pm
Press Release: Environmental Defence Society
Government’s announcement on RMA reforms expected
tomorrow
The Environmental Defence Society is
expecting really bad news for the environment from
tomorrow’s National Party Conference.
“We expect that
the Minister for the Environment will be announcing the
Government’s latest Resource Management Act reforms
tomorrow morning at 9.30 am,” said EDS Chairman Gary
Taylor.
“We are also expecting the Ministry for the
Environment to be releasing its summary of the 14,000
submissions on the Draft proposals at exactly the same
time.
“Whilst we remain hopeful that the radical changes
proposed to Part 2 of the Act will have been dropped, there
are no signs that is likely.
“We anticipate the
signalled changes to the Act will proceed in spite of
widespread opposition to them from a range of key
stakeholders across society.
“Those changes will
eviscerate many of the environmental protections in sections
6 and 7 of the Act.
“That will lower environmental
standards across the country and bring New Zealand’s clean
green reputation further into the critical international
spotlight at exactly the wrong time,” Mr Taylor
concluded
ENDS
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The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) is a professionally run, independent environmental group that was established in 1971. It brings together the disciplines of science, planning, landscape and the law.
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