Nick Young :verified: on Nostr: This is public money used as welfare for the dairy industry in disguise. Ruataniwha ...
This is public money used as welfare for the dairy industry in disguise.
Ruataniwha is a zombie project reanimated by the Fast-Track that could never get across the line because of the environmental harm it would cause.
Nothing has changed.
It will not alleviate the impacts of climate change as they say - it will only make things worse as farms become more reliant on water that they can’t count on in the long-term while yet another river is degraded.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/06/is-a-massive-hawkes-bay-dam-viable-govt-grants-3m-to-find-out/
Ruataniwha is a zombie project reanimated by the Fast-Track that could never get across the line because of the environmental harm it would cause.
Nothing has changed.
It will not alleviate the impacts of climate change as they say - it will only make things worse as farms become more reliant on water that they can’t count on in the long-term while yet another river is degraded.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/06/is-a-massive-hawkes-bay-dam-viable-govt-grants-3m-to-find-out/