Waikato Regional Council Permits Poisoning of Waterways to Kill Deer

A reblog from 2016.

Pam Vernon's avatarEnvironmental Health Watch NZ

What is laughable about this is the council’s pledge to make the waters swimmable! It is DCs & Horizons that pollute them in the first place with their consents to industry & farming, that they don’t even police correctly. See the links here as witness to that as the pollution of waterways plays out in the Horowhenua district. Same scenario, but not 1080. Nevertheless blatant pollution that is flatly denied by those responsible. Two DC Crs and local iwi Ngati Whakatere have vehemently opposed and exposed this corruption, one Cr stating that the DC is a “top drawer polluter”. We saw recently also the polluting of Auckland’s public water supply with Council’s blessing. 

This is playing out also in many NZ regions (see our LG Watch pages). It is mere lip service. Read their site spin then see what they actually do (or don’t would be more appropriate). So now…

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7 thoughts on “Waikato Regional Council Permits Poisoning of Waterways to Kill Deer”

  1. And its not like there’s NO HUNTERS in this region.. First they took our possum industry and there been trying to kill everything else ever since.

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