Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 23, 2019 17:13:49 GMT 12
NPDC’S PROPOSED DISTRICT PLAN RELEASED TODAY
The New Plymouth District is changing and NPDC is preparing for the future with its Proposed District Plan, released for public submissions today.
“The plan encourages a more compact and walkable city, more diversity in our housing and highlights the likely impacts of climate change on our coast and district. It takes a focused approach to our natural and built heritage with a particular emphasis on acknowledging the special role of Māori,” says NPDC Group Manager Strategy Liam Hodgetts.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1909/S00573/npdcs-proposed-district-plan-released-today.htm
MĀORI CLIMATE ACTIVIST TAKES AIM AT AMAZON FIRES
A Māori climate change activist wants to take Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and other world political and corporate leaders to court for ecocide and genocide.
Mike Smith, who chairs the iwi Leaders' Forum's climate change group, is at the United Nations in New York consulting with indigenous groups.
He says climate change is having a major impact on indigenous peoples, from the tribes in the Amazon burned out by president Bolsonaro's cattle raising supporters to the Arctic peoples who are losing their environment of ice and snow.
That's why he's preparing a case of climate crime to take to the International Criminal Court.
He has also filed actions in the High Court in New Zealand asking that companies like dairy giant Fonterra, Genesis Energy and New Zealand Steel be required to halve their total net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030........
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjI3NTY/Paakiwaha/M%C4%81ori-climate-activist-takes-aim-at-Amazon-fires
COURT OF APPEAL DECISION WILL AFFECT ALL OUR FUTURES
Saving the ocean’s environment continues tomorrow as Ngati Ruanui Iwi takes on Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) who wish to mine iron sand off the South Taranaki Bight in the Tasman Sea in what has been a five-year battle.
The Seabed mining application originally granted by the Environmental Protection Authority but then declined by the High Court now moves on to the Court of Appeal in Wellington next week as all parties argue key points of law under the EEZ Act (Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012).......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1909/S00290/court-of-appeal-decision-will-affect-all-our-futures.htm
The New Plymouth District is changing and NPDC is preparing for the future with its Proposed District Plan, released for public submissions today.
“The plan encourages a more compact and walkable city, more diversity in our housing and highlights the likely impacts of climate change on our coast and district. It takes a focused approach to our natural and built heritage with a particular emphasis on acknowledging the special role of Māori,” says NPDC Group Manager Strategy Liam Hodgetts.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1909/S00573/npdcs-proposed-district-plan-released-today.htm
MĀORI CLIMATE ACTIVIST TAKES AIM AT AMAZON FIRES
A Māori climate change activist wants to take Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and other world political and corporate leaders to court for ecocide and genocide.
Mike Smith, who chairs the iwi Leaders' Forum's climate change group, is at the United Nations in New York consulting with indigenous groups.
He says climate change is having a major impact on indigenous peoples, from the tribes in the Amazon burned out by president Bolsonaro's cattle raising supporters to the Arctic peoples who are losing their environment of ice and snow.
That's why he's preparing a case of climate crime to take to the International Criminal Court.
He has also filed actions in the High Court in New Zealand asking that companies like dairy giant Fonterra, Genesis Energy and New Zealand Steel be required to halve their total net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030........
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjI3NTY/Paakiwaha/M%C4%81ori-climate-activist-takes-aim-at-Amazon-fires
COURT OF APPEAL DECISION WILL AFFECT ALL OUR FUTURES
Saving the ocean’s environment continues tomorrow as Ngati Ruanui Iwi takes on Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) who wish to mine iron sand off the South Taranaki Bight in the Tasman Sea in what has been a five-year battle.
The Seabed mining application originally granted by the Environmental Protection Authority but then declined by the High Court now moves on to the Court of Appeal in Wellington next week as all parties argue key points of law under the EEZ Act (Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012).......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1909/S00290/court-of-appeal-decision-will-affect-all-our-futures.htm