Category: climate change
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What the Waitakere Ranges Local Board wish to accomplish this term
I have had the privilege of being elected as chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board this term and my colleague Saffron Toms will be deputy chair. Following is the text of my speech that I have to the Board’s inaugural meeting. E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e rau rangatira mā Tēnā koutou, tēnā…
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Oil drilling in Maui’s dolphins habitat up for consultation again.
The yearly block offer for areas the oil industry may want to drill in is again open for consulation. The process has become a yearly flash point for opposition to off shore oil drilling. The offered area includes part of the Tasman Sea about 25 kilometres off the west Coast of the Waitakere Ranges. Theoretically we…
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Dear Victoria Crone – about your climate change views …
Victoria Crone wants to be Mayor of the Super City. Her prospects do not appear good. She has two other right wing candidates in Mark Thomas and John Palino who occupy her end of the political spectrum and she is up against the might and experience of the Phil Goff campaign. Opinion polls suggest that…
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Oil drilling in Maui’s Dolphin’s habitat
Recent events have shown an unfortunate variation in the way that the Government handles issues concerning wildlife. During this month it has expressed willingness to house a couple of pandas at great cost while at the same time it has shown disregard for the future of Maui’s Dolphin by again offering Auckland’s west coast up…
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Oil rigs – coming to a beach near you?
By Greg Presland The Government has recently engaged in consultation with Auckland Council about the granting of oil exploration permits in the area west of Auckland’s west coast beaches. But the Waitakere Ranges Local Board was not included in this consultation and you have to wonder about the advisability of drilling oil wells in an…