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Greenpeace will use today\u2019s monthly Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council meeting to pressure councillors to scrap the Ruataniwha Dam.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust over a month out from local elections, and in the wake of the gastro outbreak, this council does not have a mandate to allow the Ruataniwha dam to proceed, \u201d Greenpeace Agriculture Campaigner Genevieve Toop said from Napier. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of what\u2019s happened in Havelock North and people\u2019s growing concern over water quality, we\u2019re calling on the regional council to scrap the dam. It needs to start putting people\u2019s health before industrial dairying.”<\/p>\n

Ms Toop said one of the main purposes of the Ruataniwha Dam was to enable more industrial dairying in Hawke\u2019s Bay. <\/p>\n

“This will further pollute local waterways, and heighten the threat of Havelock North-type outbreaks.We cannot risk a repeat of what\u2019s happened in the last few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenpeace is not alone in calling on the council to drop the dam. Over the last week, five and a half thousand people from around the country have emailed the councillors asking them to halt the scheme, in order to prevent more pressure on New Zealand\u2019s waterways (1).<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are putting two and two together, and realising that big irrigation schemes like Ruataniwha increase the risk to New Zealand\u2019s waterways,\u201d said Ms Toop.<\/p>\n

Despite the risks, the Government is throwing over half a billion taxpayer dollars at industrial irrigation schemes, not just in the Hawke\u2019s Bay but across the country, and local councils are pouring in millions of dollars of ratepayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be cleaning up and protecting our rivers and water supplies, not building giant irrigation schemes that will further pollute them,\u201d said Ms Toop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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