As part of its controversial Freshwater from dgfjgh's blog

As part of Deadman Mode Gold its controversial Freshwater Reform agenda, the Government proposed devolving decisions on nationally significant WCOs to local authorities, thereby creating a process that would have allowed protected waterways to be opened up for irrigation and dammed for electricity developments.However, when speaking at the Valuing Nature conference yesterday the Minister announced that no changes will be made to WCO protection mechanisms.

Fish Game NZ chief executive Bryce Johnson says the Minister has listened to the public after the outcry that surrounded the initial proposal“For this she should be congratulated. Like our landbased National Parks, the protection of WCO waterways is sacrosanct to New Zealanders.

With WCOs now off the chopping block and recognised for their importance to New Zealand , Mr Johnson says Fish Game NZ looks forward to some rigour being added to the rhetoric about the Government’s commitment to reducing the degradation of the rest of our waterways that aren’t presently afforded any protection, especially our small lowland streams.

It was encouraging to sell rs gold hear the Minister acknowledge that preventing pollution of waterways in the first place is better than leaving it to future generations to clean up,says Mr Johnson.“However, there are evident contradictions.