Displaying items by tag: Resource Management Act

The Government isn’t ruling out amending the Resource Management Act (RMA) and cutting out red tape for urgent repairs on floodravaged farms.

Minister for the Environment David Parker has introduced new legislation to Parliament aiming to reform the country’s resource management system in the form of two bills: The Natural and Built Environment Bill and the Spatial Planning Bill.

The actions of one farmer should not detract from the thousands of landowners who support regional council programmes and work hard to protect and enhance the land, waterways and biodiversity on their properties.

Federated Farmers is urging the Government not to try and push through radical reforms of the Resource Management Act (RMA) during the current pandemic.

The first draft of the proposed law that will replace the controversial Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) was released by the Government last week.

OPINION: The demise of New Zealand’s largest, and arguably most controversial, Acts of Parliament has almost been a non-event.

OPINION: Last week's announcement by the Government that it would replace the Resource Management Act (RMA) with new legislation has raised the hopes of anti-dairying lobbyists like Greenpeace.

The Government says it is delivering on its promise to reform the resource management system based on the review carried out last year.

Waikato Regional Council is urging farmers to be vigilant after seven separate court cases found farmers to have unlawfully discharged farm effluent into the environment.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have seen the Labour Party take with some ease the majority of seats in Parliament, able to govern on its own but also with a "Cooperation Agreement" with the Green Party.