I led a group of representatives of the Brook Valley Community Group who were refused a hearing by Nelson City Mayor Rachel Reece at today’s “Public Forum”. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=590325888189852&id=100016373387581&sfnsn=mo The Brook community requested a speaking slot in the public forum last week, but were told this morning that a decision had been made that it was…
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FAIRFAX REFUSES TO PUBLISH PETITION AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY RAISING MEDIA CENSORSHIP ALLEGATIONS
PRESS RELEASE: Stuff has refused to publish the rest of a nationwide advertising campaign for a petition asking for a referendum about the controversial issue of animal cruelty, raising claims of media censorship, interference with freedom of speech, and contempt for New Zealand’s democratic processes. Friends of Sherwood is asking that the following question be…
REQUEST FOR LEGAL REVIEW OF REGULATIONS WHICH EXEMPT CELLTOWERS AND OTHER RFEMR EMISSIONS FROM RMA
The Outdoors Party www.outdoorsparty.co.nz has formally requested a review of regulations (full document here) that allow new celltowers to be installed around New Zealand without any consultation with affected communities. The request was made to coincide with the Global Day of 5G Protest on 25 January 2020: “Say No to 5G”. Co-leader of the Outdoors…
I wonder…
I wonder if even one MP asked why DoC staff feel so threatened that they need $11 million of public money to protect their staff again the NZ public they are supposed to represent when New Zealanders generally love the Outdoors. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/391220/department-of-conservation-gets-11m-to-protect-staff-from-anti-1080-protesters I wonder why they went ahead anyway and gave them more of our…
Lets get International help to stop 1080 ecocide.
There is so much evidence of harm from 1080 and brodifacom poisons. Unfortunately no competent and independent forum is available in NZ to connect the dots to stop the Ecocide. DoC arranged for ERMA to review it’s 1080 use in 2007. Back then rats were barely mentioned and the only justification was killing possums. The…
Let’s Have an URGENT Moratorium and NZ Inquiry into 5G
Let’s have a moratorium until we can have an inquiry into 5G, and let’s have it now, before yet another public resource, microwave spectrum bandwidths, is allocated to multinationals. The Australian public and the great work by Ray Broomhall and others, plus a few public interest focused MPs have forced an inquiry into 5G there….
Submission on DoCs biodiversity strategy
Dear Lou, Martin and DoC teamI salute your beautiful video introducing the new biodiversity strategy.We all love NZs native species and also many of the other species that provide food, recreation and diversity. I support DoCs old approach of “outcomes for places” which provides for a diverse array of outcomes to suit local values and…
The ITNJ is coming to NZ to conduct an inquiry into Ecocide by 1080 poison
As they started to understand the implications they started to share our outrage of the Ecocide of our kea, kiwi and so many other native birds. We introduced the ITNJ to aerial 1080 poison at the opening of its new inquiry into Weaponization of the Ionosphere in Bali in June. It took a while before…
