| DIgest12 March 09 |
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Page 1 of 7 Activities Activity 1: Interview on Country TV Channel. Activity 2: Responding to RMA Amendment Bill. Activity 3: Presentation to Waikato Branch of NZ Property Council. Activity 4: Remember the RMA Reform Forum Items Item 1: Why we need to scrap Blanket Protection of Trees. Item 2: Burn Baby Burn! – time to re-visit Waste-to-Energy Plants? Item 3: Is the Financial Sector Really to Blame? Item 4: A conflict of Interest? Item 5: Ontario's War on Carbon – Is Wellington Ready for This?
Entertainments. Entertainment 1: Buy New Zealand. Entertainment 2: Letter from Charles W D Nimby Entertainment 3: Lessons to be learned from Slums.
Activity One: Interview on Country TV Channel. This was most satisfying. The interview took twenty minutes and I was advised it had run over time. The producer told me it would run at 1.20 and 7.20 in the last ten minutes of their Earth Report. I wondered what would be edited out. When I sat down to watch 7.20 came and went and flowed into Farmgate. They had decided to run the whole twenty minutes within Farmgate from 7.50 to 8.10. They hadn't dropped a word which pleased me greatly because John Stewart had asked a series of questions which allowed me to build the story line culminating in the US farmers using New Zealand science to develop carbon credits for sale from their cattle pastures, whereas our cattle farmers have to buy credits because we focus on the belching ruminants. Once again the niche media are doing the job.
Activity Two: Responding to the RMA Amendment Bill. The Centre is continuing to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed Amendments by testing the amendments against some of the court decisions the amendments are intended to reverse. Unfortunately, the first few cases we have examined would have led to the same decisions. The proposed Amendments are good but they lack the scope to have the intended outcomes.
Activity Three: Presentation to Waikato Branch of NZ Property Council. This went well and was well attended. Again, the documents being prepared and proposed by the local Council continue to promote growth management strategies and detailed structure plans and will not be affected by Phase One of the RMA reforms. Phase Two will have to make changes to Part 2 of the RMA to reverse these trends which will continue to allow central planners to regulate the economy into ongoing recession.
Activity Four: Remember the RMA Forum – and your Special Discount. Special offer for CRMS members. Advise you are a CRMS member at registration, or when registering on line, and receive a 10% discount off the conference price! There is a code box on the on-line registration form where you can type in CRMS to receive your 10% discount. If you book before the 16th March you get the early bird discount as well.
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