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Greenpeace is calling on the new Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council to abandon its fight to the Supreme Court over conservation land needed for the Ruataniwha Dam.<\/p>\n

The council’s investment arm, HBRIC, has sought leave to appeal a Court of Appeal decision that found a land swap for the dam was unlawful. If it wins the case, it would set a precedent that protected conservation land can be destroyed for commercial activities. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe new council is majority anti-dam. As such, I can\u2019t see how it would want to be associated with a ratepayer-funded legal bid to drown protected conservation land to make way for Ruataniwha,” said Greenpeace Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner Genevieve Toop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the council\u2019s investment arm pursues and wins this case, 22ha of protected conservation land would be destroyed. But more importantly, it sets a precedent whereby the rest of New Zealand\u2019s conservation land can have its status downgraded at any time to make way for commercial activities like mining and industrial irrigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cConservation land belongs to all New Zealanders. It does not belong to companies wanting to destroy it for private profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dam was the key issue local election issue in Hawke\u2019s Bay. \u201cVoters have given the new council a clear mandate to scrap the dam. That means dropping the court case,\u201d said Genevieve Toop.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace has been campaigning to stop the Ruataniwha Dam, on the basis it will mean 9,000 additional hectares of industrial dairy farming in the Bay and compound local water quality problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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