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By amending a longstanding tenet of the Resource Management Act, the Government has fallen for lobbying and scaremongering from primary industries, critics say.
Section 107 of the act governs discharges into freshwater. Recent court rulings reinforced the strength of this section, sounding alarm bells for industry bodies, which proceeded to lobby the Government to weaken it. But it wasn’t just industry groups; in April, to the chagrin of some of his councillors, Environment Canterbury Chair Peter Scott independently wrote a letter to Minister for RMA reform Chris Bishop explicitly requesting changes to section 107.
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