Capacity for 25,000 extra dairy cows has been added in Canterbury this year.

“The Government has now proposed to remove statutory limits to pollution entirely and plans to make its own non-statutory limits.

“It’s weakening limits – when it is the polluting activities we need to change.

“We need to see law changes that strengthen protection for freshwater ecosystems, not undermine them,” says Dr Hall.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2512/S00713/high-court-confirms-ecans-nitrate-pollution-rule-was-made-in-error.htm

#nzpol #pollution #RMA #ECan

The High Court has put the kibosh on companies purchasing water consents granted for one purpose and putting them to a completely different use.

This harks back to the Supreme Court ruling on Cloud Ocean which prevented offshore companies turning water permits for wool scouring into huge water bottling operations.

In this case a tiny community group (Seesaw) with only 14 members has beaten the giant Fulton Hogan's Roydon Quarry near Templeton.

The Court found ECan didn’t have the power to grant a “use-only” consent, for quarrying, when the original consent was issued for the “take and use” of irrigating pasture. ECan’s error was “fundamental”, the judgement said.

But the bad guys never give up. "ECan is working on a plan change which, critics say, will undermine the precedent set by the Supreme Court."

Of course they are.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/03/court-quashes-quarrys-water-consent-with-a-sympathetic-delay/

#Water #NZ #Consents #ECan

What should be main function of an

‘Emancipatory Civil Action Network’?

#ECAN

(Pic shows the very cat that asked me this question 5mins ago on my morning jog)

Im Rahmen von europaweit koordinierten Protestaktionen blockierten Aktivist*innen Anfang Juli zwei #Kreuzfahrt-Schiffe in #Kiel für mehrere Stunden. Nun hat #RadioDreyeckland ein 10minütiges Interview mit einem Aktivisten aus dem Umfeld der Gruppe #SmashCruiseshit veröffentlicht.

Interview: https://rdl.de/beitrag/umweltzerst-rung-ausbeutung-koloniale-verh-ltnisse-das-bedeuten-kreuzfahrten
Aktion: https://de.indymedia.org/node/376651

#kolonialismus #klimakrise #ECAN #StopCroisieres

ECan's incompetence has led to the death of hundreds of fish, eels and fresh water crays. Farmers have been warning about this disaster for weeks, while ECan twiddled their fingers.

Publicity showing the largely dead creek caused a sudden ECan u-turn today.

Too little, too late.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/512399/farmer-outcry-over-dying-fish-pushes-canterbury-council-to-allow-water-diversion

#ECan #NZ #Canterbury

RT EU Health - #HealthUnion
#eCAN is bringing the benefits of ehealth to cancer patients in Europe, as part of the #EUCancerPlan.
Joint Action @ecan_ja is exploring how secure telemonitoring and teleconsultations can help reduce inequalities in cancer care across the EU.
#EU4Health

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1688799702886846464

#eCAN is bringing the benefits of ehealth to cancer patients in Europe, as part of the #EUCancerPlan.

Joint Action @ecan_ja is exploring how secure telemonitoring and teleconsultations can help reduce inequalities in cancer care across the EU.

#EU4Health #EWAC2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1663070164861190145

RT @EU_Health: #eCAN is bringing the benefits of ehealth to cancer patients in Europe, as part of the #EUCancerPlan.

Joint Action @ecan_ja is exploring how secure telemonitoring and teleconsultations can help reduce inequalities in cancer care across the EU.

#EU4Health #EWAC2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_HaDEA/status/1663169986393718785