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…

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…

This week the Department of Conservation has admitted that 50% (six out of 12) monitored kea died following a 1080 poison drop in the Matukituki Valley, near Wanaka. We dont know how many unmonitored kea died but must assume 50% of those too. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/six-kea-found-dead-near-wanaka-following-1080-drop This follows a series of cases where our iconic and endangered…

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….