Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 24, 2017 16:35:28 GMT 12
KERMADEC OCEAN SANCTUARY PUT ON ICE BY NZ FIRST, CATCHING GREENS UNAWARE
New Zealand's biggest ocean sanctuary is dead in the water, in a Winston Peters deal that has blind-sided the Greens.
The 620,000 sq km Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, announced by John Key at the United Nations in 2015, was hailed around the world and passed its first reading in Parliament unopposed.
But fishing companies and iwi bodies filed legal action opposing it, saying the sanctuary would deny them fishing rights agreed in Treaty settlements.
NZ First, whose senior MPs are close to the fishing industry and whose campaign was partly bankrolled by players in the fishing industry, demanded Labour stop the sanctuary.
And it is understood Jacinda Ardern agreed a Labour-NZ First government would not progress legislation to establish the sanctuary in this three-year Parliamentary term. That will disappoint some of her MPs and supporters, but will win favour among her Maori MPs who argued it undermined iwi commercial fishing rights......
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/98122008/kermadec-ocean-sanctuary-put-on-ice-by-nz-first-catching-greens-unaware
More on the above here > Kermadec Sanctuary still on table, but iwi consultation key – Labour
And more here > NZ First refuses to say if Kermadec plans are afloat
New Zealand's biggest ocean sanctuary is dead in the water, in a Winston Peters deal that has blind-sided the Greens.
The 620,000 sq km Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, announced by John Key at the United Nations in 2015, was hailed around the world and passed its first reading in Parliament unopposed.
But fishing companies and iwi bodies filed legal action opposing it, saying the sanctuary would deny them fishing rights agreed in Treaty settlements.
NZ First, whose senior MPs are close to the fishing industry and whose campaign was partly bankrolled by players in the fishing industry, demanded Labour stop the sanctuary.
And it is understood Jacinda Ardern agreed a Labour-NZ First government would not progress legislation to establish the sanctuary in this three-year Parliamentary term. That will disappoint some of her MPs and supporters, but will win favour among her Maori MPs who argued it undermined iwi commercial fishing rights......
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/98122008/kermadec-ocean-sanctuary-put-on-ice-by-nz-first-catching-greens-unaware
More on the above here > Kermadec Sanctuary still on table, but iwi consultation key – Labour
And more here > NZ First refuses to say if Kermadec plans are afloat