Canterbury could end up with 12,400 more cows as dairy profits clash with nitrate emergency Environment Canterbury has granted a fresh round of dairy-related consents in the past five months, even as the region grapples with a declared nitrate emergency.

Canterbury could end up with 12,400 more cows as dairy profits are prioritised over the nitrate emergency

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Failure to sign Guehi despite previously being prepared to pay £35m smacks of Liverpool & edwards, hughes conspiring to get Arne sacked. A despicable way to treat any LFC manager. Is Alonso really that good? Arne won us the title! #Liverpool #LFC #ShameOnUs #edwards&hughesOUT #TooMuchInfluence #Slot

Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction - Greenpeace International at COP30, it's so urgent that governments see through Big Ag’s greenwash. We urgently need effective action that not just halts, but reverses deforestation. Only then can we really start repairing the...

Big Meat & Dairy's #COP30 greenwashing:

'Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

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Oh yes. I have 3 neighbours with #Swastikars #StinkEyeDaily #AtLeast1CyberTruckInTown #Wankpanzer #Reichsmobile #TeslaDeathTraps #LeonEndedAccidentReporting #TooMuchInfluence #AskWisconsin

New Zealand’s Methane Target Sets Bad Precedent, Scientists Warn New Zealand’s decision to set a less ambitious methane emissions reduction target sets a worrying precedent that other nations may follow, scientists have warned.

New Zealand’s dairy industry-backed methane target rollback sets bad precedent, scientists warn
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Dairy conversions boom despite ‘nitrate emergency’ Canterbury could soon have 35,000 more dairy cows on its pastures, as consenting rules are relaxed and prices for milk products spiral.

Dairy conversions boom in Canterbury despite ‘nitrate emergency’

⁦‪Fonterra‬⁩ increases profit and pollution while we pay the price of contaminated drinking water, polluted rivers and methane climate emissions.

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Farmers won't need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA rules The changes will save thousands of farmers from having to lodge resource consents to discharge pollutants into waterways, but critics say councils should be in charge.

Disgusting!

Farmers now won't even need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA fresh water protection rules

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Opposition mounts to new tax for organisations Federated Farmers says it is not a routine tax consultation, it is a "significant new interpretation that overturns 20 years of settled practice".

It's hard to feel any sympathy for Federated Farmers here...

A proposed law change could mean Federated Farmers will be charged tax on its membership for the first time.
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Luxon Government to favour dairy pollution at the expense of drinking water Luxon’s Government is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people’s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water and…

The Luxon Govt is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people’s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.

#ToomanyCows #TooMuchInfluence

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Farm machinery tax discount a 'boost' for rural economy Those in the agriculture sector who can afford to buy new farm equipment are feeling buoyed by the government's new tax incentive.

The kids have to watch out for melted plastic and insect lavae in their crappy, budget school lunches, but meanwhile...

Farm machinery tax discount a 'boost' for rural economy
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Greenpeace vs Federated Farmers stoush boils over Feds are trying to remove the enviromental group’s charitable status - but ‘under current law they don’t have a leg to stand on’, says Greenpeace NZ head Russel Norman.

How much influence does @FedFarmers have over the Luxon Government?

Fed Farmers won’t be able to strip our charitable status as the law stands now, says Greenpeace
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Of course Luxon’s new Chief Science advisor is a dairy industry guy.

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Integrity Briefing: How dairy lobbyists get their way in the Beehive Bryce Edwards writes –  The country’s dairying industry is the most potent corporate influence on politics in New Zealand. This became even greater when former Federated Farmers president And…

"The country’s dairying industry is the most potent corporate influence on politics in NZ. This became even greater when former Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard was elected as an Act MP and immediately installed as the Minister for Food Safety."

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How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.

This RNZ investigation shows how the dairy industry lobbied the government to put private profit before public health and won.

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A sign warns of polluted river water

Cows wallow in a river

Cows wallow in mud

Mud from intensive winter grazing washes down through a river into the sea

It's cheaper to produce milk in New Zealand than it is in ANY of the other major milk producing countries.

I wonder why that is 🙄

I dunno, could it be that the regulations are so few and so lax in NZ?

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Greenpeace accuses government climate panel of only listening to 'vested interests' The panel only met with two groups when it was preparing its findings.

Greenpeace accuses government climate panel of only listening to 'vested interests' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour - Greenpeace Aotearoa Shocking new evidence exposes how the intensive dairy industry lobbied MPs to rewrite freshwater rules in their favour.

Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @willappelbe.bsky.social

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The art of lobbying a government “It’s great to see so many of the ideas we put forward ... picked up by the coalition government,” said the Federated Farmers president.

ICYMI - Hundreds of pages of emails show farming groups have been in regular contact with Government ministers, pressing for changes to environmental rules. In some cases, the lobbying was followed by Government action.
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Politics and Religion should be Mutually Exclusive Meme

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‘A lot of action quite quickly’: How the Government won over the farm lobby: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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Methane review offers nothing new, but it was never meant to Analysis: Setting NZ's climate targets is a matter of political and moral judgment, not scientific modelling or mathematical calculation, writes Marc Daalder.

"Setting New Zealand’s climate targets is a matter of political and moral judgment, not scientific modelling or mathematical calculation"

Methane review offers nothing new, but it was never meant to newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/m... via @marcdaalder.bsky.social

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Farmers saying the quiet bit out loud.

"We've lost control"... of local government?

Farmers push for new breakaway Canterbury council
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