Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 26, 2017 17:31:41 GMT 12
WINSTON PETERS: 'YOUR WATER RIGHTS ARE GOING OUT UNDER YOUR NOSE
Secret meetings are being held in Wellington between iwi and the Government to set up a separate entity that handles water allocation rights, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has claimed.
"Your water rights here are going straight out of control under your nose and you are not being told by the regional council here as to what they have done," he said.
Peters was referring to minutes of a meeting he requested under the Official Information Act (OIA) confirming Prime Minister Bill English, Nick Smith, Simon Bridges, Te Ururoa Flavell and Waikato regional chairman Alan Livingston met with representatives from iwi including Tainui, Raukawa, Te Arawa River Iwi, Ngati Tawharetoa and Maniapoto to discuss the Waikato and Waipa River Review.
Peters said the minutes he had told enough of the picture.
"It tells you this - that there is going to be a new statutory body that you've never heard about which will control the outcome where water is concerned.....
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Secret meetings are being held in Wellington between iwi and the Government to set up a separate entity that handles water allocation rights, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has claimed.
"Your water rights here are going straight out of control under your nose and you are not being told by the regional council here as to what they have done," he said.
Peters was referring to minutes of a meeting he requested under the Official Information Act (OIA) confirming Prime Minister Bill English, Nick Smith, Simon Bridges, Te Ururoa Flavell and Waikato regional chairman Alan Livingston met with representatives from iwi including Tainui, Raukawa, Te Arawa River Iwi, Ngati Tawharetoa and Maniapoto to discuss the Waikato and Waipa River Review.
Peters said the minutes he had told enough of the picture.
"It tells you this - that there is going to be a new statutory body that you've never heard about which will control the outcome where water is concerned.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11895071