Thread: Fish and Game

Originally Posted by username

Probably is munsey! I don't disagree dairy pollutes but try getting onto your council they are the ones allowing water rights and conversions in your catchment its not a farmers responsibility to to conduct research into the affects on waterways. Land owners pay massive rates to the council to do that job. On our 3k dead end road there is about 35-40M dollars worth of well established dairy farms. Can you imagine the rates? And the tax paid! Yet we have a pot hole filled gravel road that we cant get out of if it floods, poor cell service. Poor internet. Oamaru hospital is a joke. Waimate schools are decile 1. Yet that money goes somewhere?
If you are told its ok by the council you don't question it. Chch was still building on swamps up until the earth quakes


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It is ECAN here that issues those consents and, because they were following the guidelines to improve the situation and being fairly strict, the central government put in statutory management to get things moving. The towns and cities have also been doing their part to improve water quality by installing better effluent treatment plants (costing massive amounts of money) and imposing much stricter controls on waste/emissions from industries, forcing quite a few to close.

Dairying has also made huge improvements at huge expense. We all have a way to go, including other areas of farming, but it needs to be done at an economically sustainable rate. There is no point shutting the country down for an immediate fix for something that needs to and will take time. I think it is time for F&G to stop fighting the farming sector and start working with them to make improvements.