How I restored a classic Range Rover and saved it from the junkyard // SOUP Classic Motoring - Duration: 1:28:40. HON DAVID PARKER Labour MP Attorney-General Minister for the Environment Minister for Trade and Export Growth Associate Minister of Finance. Environmental reporting; Marine and Government. The Greens want farmers to wean themselves off harmful fertilisers, improve water quality and become properly sustainable through adopting regenerative agriculture.

He was a litigation and managing partner in law firm Anderson Lloyd and was a co-founder of the Dunedin Community Law Centre. We have just seen a big fire in the middle of winter with pines burning in the South Island.

10:17. She outlined the Green Party’s new farming policy which would provide support to farmers to transition to regenerative farming and establish New Zealand as a leader in the organic market. Environment Minister David Parker says the Government’s freshwater reforms are fair, and its opponents should stop catastrophizing about it. Environment Minister David Parker says the decision to allow pine plantations on any class of land has been “a blunt instrument” for carbon offsetting. “It’s not the end of the world, these rules are needed,” he said.

View David Parker’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Some aspects of the RMA had worked out, such as air quality, where Parker pointed to Timaru’s improved air quality as an example. Activist organisation 50 Shades of Green has voiced concerns that pine plantations used as carbon sinks destroyed biodiversity.

“We ran a public process up and down the country, we had 1700 or so submissions . Parker told Stuff the Government was trying to make good on the slogan “the right tree in the right place”. Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson said moncultural pine planting was not the solution to getting to carbon zero. But NZ First MP Shane Jones said New Zealand had to meet the cost of decarbonising somehow, and asked what the alternative was if not pine trees. Parker, who emphasised this was an urban problem as much as a rural one, said some councils need to ‘’up their game’’. READ MORE: * Forestry: Don't give in to 'anti-tree' campaigners * Emissions trading reform 'a slap in the face' for sheep and beef farmers * Rural communities under threat from carbon offsetting, farmers say. “If we better integrate decisions with some higher level strategic planning, we will get better results,” he said. Government’s National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, Government pumps $700m into cleaning up waterways, Coronavirus: David Parker tells councils to keep consenting during Covid-19 crisis, Three billboards protest pollution in Canterbury's Selwyn River, US Election Live: Joe Biden addresses the nation as his lead grows in Pennsylvania, Visiting Russian fisherman died of 'natural causes' at Lyttelton Port, Covid-19: Fewer than 20 people got tracer app alert about new Auckland community case, US Election: Why Pennsylvania hasn't been called, US Election: Republican hits back at Trump's 'very disturbing' vote fraud claims, The mysterious case of missing millionaire Graham Vanstone 21 years on, Two injured in drive-by shooting in Kaitaia, Northland, The double fatal crash that stole a young mother's family, US divided by election but a Biden win would matter for New Zealand, US Election: Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene. Southland regenerative crop and dairy farmer Mark Anderson wishes he'd started 15 years earlier. He said offsetting was akin to buying your way out of sin rather than changing actual behaviour. Parker, who was in South Canterbury on Thursday, said he was confident the recently gazetted freshwater reforms found the right balance. Environment Minister David Parker says the decision to allow pine plantations on any class of land has been “a blunt instrument” for carbon offsetting. Parker said those who said the new rules would “end farming” were catastrophising. The Government’s National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management came into force on September 3, and aims to improve the quality of the country's lakes, rivers and streams within a generation.

“A blanket of pines that will harbour pests and become a huge fire risk. Environment Minister David Parker, in South Canterbury on Thursday, is confident recently gazetted freshwater reforms find the right balance.

“Essentially, it takes too long, it costs too much, and it doesn’t protect the environment. Today is World Environment Day, so I thought I’d share a picture of one of my favourite parks in New Zealand.

Political parties were on a range of growth-related questions, including being asked for solutions on how to solve the distortions created by the carbon price, which made it twice as profitable for farmers to plant pine trees than to farm sheep or beef. Farmers have long been saying that carbon offsetting was a threat to rural communities, as investors bought up productive sheep and beef farms to plant pine forestry. The incentivisation of monoculture pine plantations was broadly criticised by political parties in a Business NZ-facilitated discussion on Monday. Environment Minister David Parker says the new freshwater rules are ‘’fair and balanced’’. Last month Damien O’Connor announced new policy which gave councils the ability to require consents for “anything over 50 hectares if they so choose”. David Parker Recommended for you. About the proposed sanctuary It said carbon offsetting could include planting natives on farmland and sheep and beef farming should be recognised for putting carbon back into the soil. READ MORE: * Government pumps $700m into cleaning up waterways * Coronavirus: David Parker tells councils to keep consenting during Covid-19 crisis * Three billboards protest pollution in Canterbury's Selwyn River.

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