At the heart of it all was the issue that has dogged the Otago Regional Council for decades. Protestors and Hobbs supporters at this week’s extraordinary Otago Regional Council meeting. The meeting was adjourned for half an hour until tensions were only simmering and Andrew Noone could be elected the new regional council chairman. "Young people don’t realise that the Otago Regional Council is the environmental council; that most of the decisions that actually affect them on the ground are made there." New Otago Regional Council chairman Andrew Noone.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 12, 2020 15:33 UTC