Bethells spraying risks Environment and Community Effects
By Steffan Browning
The intended helicopter spraying of crack willow with herbicide over 23 ha of wetland at Te Henga, near Bethells Beach, is another example of New Zealand’s use of crude chemical solutions without deep understanding of environmental risks, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ.
The wetland area due to be sprayed is within Rodney county. Aerial spraying is due to occur next Monday is 5 kilometres from where I live. Rodney council has not bothered to contact me -- yet others have been told.
Whenever the word environment is brought into discussion, most people these days immediately go off on a tangent about global warming or climate change because too many of us do not understand the full scientific measure of it. Politicians made sure of that.
When email messages are just forwarded directly to a disclosed list of people you send items to, all addresses may become inundated with unasked for junk, or worse.
Yes we are aware that (former Green Party co-leader) Jeanette Fitzsimons's position on herd homes has been misrepresented by Don Nicholson. [The party] sent a response to the papers that ran [Nicholson's] opinion piece
