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Bluegreens to discuss environment
Bluegreens to discuss environment
An indication of the Government's environment policy direction in election year may be given tomorrow when the National Party's environmental wing the Bluegreens meet in Akaroa.
In a column foreshadowing the event and published in the Dominion Post and The Press, political commentator Colin James said environment minister Nick Smith may release a revised national environmental standard on air quality. Draft environmental policy statements on biodiversity and water management are also likely to be up for discussion, James speculates:
"Smith has a stack of announcements for the Bluegreens conference on Saturday at Akaroa, postponed from October by the earthquake...
"He is unlikely to have much to say on the clean-tech taskforce he first mused on a year ago. He has yet to persuade the cabinet. The '100% plan' big-business chief executives clean-tech group has now largely tuned out."
2010 was a year when
environmental issues of national significance captured media
attention, including water management in Canterbury, plans
to mine on conservation land, the water quality of our
rivers and streams and proposals to house cows in feedlots
in the MacKenzie Basin. Science Media Centre briefings on
many of these issues can be accessed here.
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