Welcome to the Midnight Collective Broadsheet 88
Actively
supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds
What would be a meaningful post-grad
research project for an ambitous student aiming for her PhD, would be to track the trail
of political responses through the media to adverse publicity on our expressway.
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| Destroying the dune lake August 2015 |
We have already posted about the stampede
of pro-government good news stories published in local media during the
election campaign. None of this, it goes without saying, was declared as
political party propaganda (it would have had to be declared as an expense),
though it was funded by you and me (the taxpayer) through our own public works
agency –the NZTA.
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| Destroying the dune lake August 2015 |
Now, following adverse publicity on local
wetlands in the local press, regarding a local government politician, (a
controversy over which our last blog hit record numbers), low and behold, who
should turn up on site but the same local politician holding hands with a
senior member of 'The Government'. The
senior Member expressed his surprise and pleasure at the wonders of motorway
construction – while also mentioning, quite incidentally, how the government
would be making five times the amount of wetland it has destroyed.
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| Bridging the Wharemauku - demolishing the dune land opposite |
Well this is a surprise because in
previous publicity they’ve always said they were only going to remake three times the wetlands destroyed. This sounds like good news but why would you believe
them?
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| Destroying the dune lake August 2015 |
Only someone with no understanding or
genuine interest and regard for
the ecological complexity and fragility of a thousand year old wetland
and the wildlife it supports would casually announce in this way, that they
could build a new wetland in such a way.
And then there’s the problem revealed in
the photographs that accompany this post.
According to the submissions presented to the Board of Enquiry this
small remnant reduced to 1.5 hectares (on their estimate) would remain in situ and untouched. They’re down there right now, destroying
the lot.
So much for the integrity of Boards of
Inquiry; and their findings…
The neighbors on the right
sat & watched them every night
(I bet you'd do the same if they was you)
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