Urgent Economic Action To Protect Exports

Urgent Economic Action To Protect Exports

Farmers need to be able to farm without worrying about costly, lengthy, and uncertain consenting processes hanging over their heads. New Zealand’s economic recovery relies on it, Mr McClay says.

Urgent economic action to protect exports

The Government has taken urgent action to prevent what could have amounted to a ‘stop work’ notice for thousands of New Zealand farmers, RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay, and Associate Environment Minster Andrew Hoggard say. “Last month, Waikato Regional Council informed the Government that unless urgent changes were made to water discharge rules in the RMA, approximately 2,800 Waikato farms would require resour…