Displaying items by tag: Environment Canterbury

Tuesday, 07 October 2025 11:55

ECan circus

OPINION: The Hound wonders, is there some variety of idiot juice in the water in Canterbury? It seems so.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 07 October 2025 10:44

Political stunts

OPINION: Is the ECan regional council run by earnest, handwringing Greta Thunberg wannabes these days?

Published in The Hound
Thursday, 02 October 2025 07:55

Editorial: Nitrate emergency?

OPINION: Environment Canterbury's (ECan) decision recently to declare a so-called “nitrate emergency” is laughable.

Published in Opinion
Wednesday, 01 October 2025 09:55

Federated Farmers slam Canterbury nitrate emergency

A shameless political stunt is how Federated Farmers is describing the Canterbury Regional Council decision to declare “a nitrate emergency” on the back of its latest annual groundwater quality survey.

Published in General News
Wednesday, 01 October 2025 09:53

ECan in circus mode

OPINION: The first question is how much nitrate is there in the Canterbury water and are we expecting multiple deaths with hospitals overwhelmed every day? Unlikely.

Published in Milking It

Federated Farmers say Environment Canterbury's decision to declare a 'nitrate emergency' is a shameless political stunt that won't help anyone.

Published in General News

Environment Canterbury has confirmed a surge in interest in new dairy conversions, with four effluent discharge permits for conversions granted since the start of the year.

Published in General News

Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard says the consenting experience facing some high-country Canterbury sheep and beef farms is "bloody tragic" and vindicates the Government's move to abolish the Resource Management Act (RMA).

Published in General News
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 08:55

Regional council agenda ‘to just reduce cow numbers'

South Canterbury dairy farmer and recently-retired Fonterra director Leonie Guiney has welcomed an announcement from the Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) that development of its Regional Policy Statement has been paused.

Published in General News
Friday, 29 November 2024 12:25

Canterbury Regional Policy Statement paused

Environment Canterbury says it is pausing the development of its Regional Policy Statement following changes in government direction on freshwater management.

Published in General News
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