Greenpeace supporters have flooded the Otago Regional Council with submissions on its regional policy statement. The proposed regional policy statement is the first of its kind under new national regulations. But because it is also the first regional policy statement in New Zealand to be notified since the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 was gazetted, Greenpeace says it will ‘‘set the tone’’ for new regulations for the rest of the country. In a public workshop last week, council senior policy analyst James Adams said nearly 1500 submissions were received during consultation. The environmental organisation said, in a statement, that more than 1300 people had submitted along Greenpeace lines.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 08, 2021 15:32 UTC