Editorial: RMA reforms uproar
OPINION: The euphoria over the Government’s two new bills to replace the broken Resource Management Act is over.
Details on a replacement for the Resource Management Act (RMA) will be released to the media this week.
Milking It understands a major announcement on consents and how they are handled by regional councils are also on the cards.
Farmers are unhappy with unnecessary cost, uncertainty and red tape required just to renew their existing resource consents, especially the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a piece of paper that may not be needed once the RMA is rewritten.
