BILLIONAIRE'S WATER REQUEST EXTENDED TO SMOOTH MAORI CONCERN

[Kiwi Frontline]

BILLIONAIRE'S WATER REQUEST EXTENDED TO SMOOTH MAORI CONCERNS

A luxury lodge's request to irrigate 60,000 litres of water a day from a stream has been extended to ease local iwi's concerns.

A manager of Helena Bay Lodge, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Abramov​, filed a resource consent with the Northland Regional Council (NRC) on March 23, asking to be granted the right to take water from the Te Mimiha stream to keep the grass at its entrance green in summer.

NRC resource consent manager Stuart Savill, said the lodge had had the council's decision deadline extended indefinitely. 

He said they did so because the Ngatiwai iwi's Mokau Marae in the area were still worried about the effect the irrigation could have on the eels and tuna in the stream that some of the community catch to eat.....

www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/business/95415931/Billionaires-water-request-extended-to-smooth-Maori-concerns

[second-class-citizen]

Maori...the very race that wiped out the Moa, the Huia, many other species of birds, and not to mention the races who were here before them, like the Moriori, have set themselves up as some kind of conservation minded race that can talk to wildlife. Some even believe that C-grade movie "Whale Rider" was factual.  Maori .....caring for the land ( if the price is right) since....1990's. Anyone who knows the real truth about their culture pre 1840 will have a good laugh at this blatant fraud.