Opponents
The Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme is opposed by farmers and community, recreation and environment groups. Opponents include;
- individual farmers such as Sheffield Valley farmer Marty Lucas who will lose more than 30% of his property.
- the Malvern Hills Protection Society formerly the 'Dam Action Group',
- the Water Rights Trust,
- the New Zealand Recreational Canoeing Association,
- the Christchurch-based White Water Canoe Club,
- the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand,
- the Fish and Game Council of New Zealand, and,
- the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,
Between 1,192 and 1,316 of public submitters oppose the 64 notified consent applications lodged with Canterbury Regional Council and between 153 and 172 submissions are in support. The range of numbers of submitters given is presumably due to the some of the submissions specifying some specific consent applications rather than all of the applications included in the proposal.
Read more about this topic: Central Plains Water
Famous quotes containing the word opponents:
“The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)