Are We Being Screwed????
by Polly Flower
I invite you to look at the attached map and send me your thoughts. There is talk commonly around that this is ‘Foreshore by Stealth’. Because this contentious issue is quite involved and disputed by the political factions we feel there is a need for a lot more transparency and public forum. It is necessary to realize that mataitai are established ‘in perpetuity’, that is, once gifted, held forever. Even if the application of them does in fact prove to discriminate.
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How to Paint it BLACK
by Jim Mikoz
Check out these photos of the Waiwhetu Stream in Lower Hutt. You would have thought someone had painted it black with all the stones, rocks and logs covered in a layer of black slime. However, it is a lot worse than that. This is what happens to a stream when it is being used as an open sewer, as this one has been for the last thirty-five years by the Hutt City Council (HCC).
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LOCK THE GATE
By Jim Mikoz
If it had not been for the very competitive and experienced Wellington Surfcasting and Angling Club members who have been fishing the Pencarrow area for over forty years, it is quite likely no one would know how instant and serious the impact of the chemicals that are now flowing out of sewage pipes is having on the marine food chain, not just at Pencarrow. Four years ago the Hutt City Council (HCC) commissioned a new sewage processing plant at Seaview to remove the solids from the sewage. Once again the HCC, this time under the leadership of John Terris, showed a complete disregard for the marine environment as they were too miserable to lay a pipe out into the fast Cook Strait currents. The HCC instead dumped the chemical cocktail directly onto the little beach next to Pencarrow called Buff Bay.
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Marine Management
By Jim Mikoz
Someone in Government has a wickedly warped sense of humour to have Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderson, who is also the Minister of Fisheries, announce the name of the recently approved marine reserve on Wellington’s south coast as the Kupe and Kevin Smith Marine Reserve.
