Come along and find out more about the Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill – how it will override existing conservation legislation, prevent public consultation, and allow damaging projects to go ahead.
Featuring:
- Nicola Toki, CE Forest & Bird
- Sally Gepp KC, Resource Management lawyer
- Marnie Prickett, Research Fellow, Dept of Public Health Otago University
- Suzanne Hills, Forest & Bird West Coast Branch Chair
- Jess Lamb, Forest & Bird National Youth Director
The Fast-track Approvals Bill is at the heart of this Government's systematic war on nature and on environmental protections critical to preserving freshwater, forests, oceans, and wildlife. This Bill undermines our democracy and Te Tiriti o Waitangi and will put Aotearoa on a fast track to environmental destruction by rubber stamping projects such as:
- Coal mining on public conservation land
- New oil and gas exploration
- Seabed mining
- Dams that flood forests
- Fish farms in already compromised oceans, and much, much more…
This anti-democratic Bill concentrates power in the hands of three Ministers and allows them to run roughshod over the few environmental protections we have in place for our threatened wildlife and landscapes – while ignoring the concerns of local communities and tangata whenua.