Fonterra’s 2014 Annual Report makes for impressive reading when it comes to water quality. Dairy farmers are voluntarily making huge progress fencing and planting waterways, and ensuring that when stock have to cross rivers, they do so on a bridge. … Read More

What does National’s resounding election win mean for our rivers? As we found in our review of the Government’s water quality framework, we have serious reasons to doubt their commitment to ‘maintain or improve our waterways’. Our concerns are growing … Read More

With the election out of the way, our focus is going back on our waterways. In coming months we are going to drill down into some of the issues that are facing our fresh water. First out of the blocks … Read More

The day before yesterday we argued for a Bluegreen Party – one that could act as a coalition partner to Labour or National. Yesterday we covered a major bluegreen area – climate change. Today we will sketch out three policy … Read More

Yesterday I argued for a Bluegreen Party – one that could act as a coalition partner to Labour or National – a party that stuck to its knitting of protecting and improving the environment while remaining relatively agnostic on the … Read More