Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 25, 2016 18:13:03 GMT 12
WHANGANUI RIVER CLAIMS SETTLEMENT BILL FIRST READING
“This Bill can never replace or undo the decades of repeated degradation to these very special waters, however it is a start,” says Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell during the first reading of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement Bill) in Parliament today.
He said the iwi had been forced to watch the sustained misuse and exploitation of their ancestral waters over a century.
Fourteen Whanganui chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi in May 1840, and since that time, the Crown has systematically undermined Whanganui iwi rights and interests in the management and use of the Whanganui River.
Breaches include, exclusion from decision-making; concerns submitted through petitions on the impact of river “improvements”, river conservation and protection being largely ignored; and no consultation when the diversion of water from Whanganui into the Tongariro Power Scheme was authorised in 1958.
To this day the iwi maintains this caused extreme harm to the river and its environment…..
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1605/S00469/whanganui-river-claims-settlement-bill-second-reading.htm
“This Bill can never replace or undo the decades of repeated degradation to these very special waters, however it is a start,” says Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell during the first reading of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement Bill) in Parliament today.
He said the iwi had been forced to watch the sustained misuse and exploitation of their ancestral waters over a century.
Fourteen Whanganui chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi in May 1840, and since that time, the Crown has systematically undermined Whanganui iwi rights and interests in the management and use of the Whanganui River.
Breaches include, exclusion from decision-making; concerns submitted through petitions on the impact of river “improvements”, river conservation and protection being largely ignored; and no consultation when the diversion of water from Whanganui into the Tongariro Power Scheme was authorised in 1958.
To this day the iwi maintains this caused extreme harm to the river and its environment…..
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1605/S00469/whanganui-river-claims-settlement-bill-second-reading.htm