Tag: environment
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Why I think Plan Change 8 is a Step Backward for Canterbury
14 April 2026 Following on from the “Our Water 2026” theme last week, a major shift is occurring in how Canterbury manages its most precious resource. The Government’s decision to grant an exemption for Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) Plan Change 8 (PC8) to the Land and Water Regional Plan may look like a technical adjustment, but…
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Council meeting 591, 27 November “how to flip flop your reasoning in the space of one agenda item”.
We had Council meeting 591 today and I left it feeling a bit like a ‘rock em sock em robot’, having had two attempts at a code of conduct breach levelled at me and seeing two major decisions defy my logic. The first involved an opposite view to a Councillor and the second the use…
Greg Byrnes 