{"id":70617,"date":"2025-05-29T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=70617"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:44:32","slug":"luxon-government-to-favour-dairy-pollution-at-the-expense-of-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/luxon-government-to-favour-dairy-pollution-at-the-expense-of-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxon Government to favour dairy pollution at the expense of drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luxon\u2019s Government is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people\u2019s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The proposed changes to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, announced today,&nbsp; include giving more favour to corporate uses of water like intensive dairy. This fundamentally undermines Te Mana O Te Wai, the framework that prioritises the health of freshwater ecosystems and the health of community drinking water ahead of corporate uses of water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace Aotearoa freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe says, \u201cSafe drinking water requires healthy freshwater ecosystems, and that should always be the priority. But today\u2019s decision will drive more water contamination, especially in rural communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, this will facilitate dairy expansion, and we know what that means for the country. More cows means more pollution from effluent and fertiliser, poisoning waterways with nitrate and nasty pathogens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cJust this year, several new dairy expansion consents have been approved in Canterbury, where many communities are facing a drinking water crisis as a result of nitrate contamination from intensive dairy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe Government is meant to be protecting the health of communities, not lining the pockets of corporate polluters. We\u2019ve already seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/milking-it-how-the-intensive-dairy-industry-rewrote-freshwater-rules-in-their-favour\/\">influence the agriculture lobby has had over the rollback of freshwater protections last year<\/a>, and this announcement today demonstrates how much of a hold lobbyists have over Luxon and his Cabinet.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cBut communities are ready to fight for clean drinking water and swimmable rivers, even if Luxon won\u2019t. It&#8217;s more important than ever that local governments \u2013 like Environment Canterbury, which has responsibility over the majority of New Zealand\u2019s freshwater ecosystems \u2013 step up and take real action to protect lakes, rivers, and drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/preview-action.greenpeace.org.nz\/petition\/agriculture-environment-canterbury-protect-drinking-water\">calling on Environment Canterbury to protect clean drinking water and put an end to dairy expansion<\/a>. People across the country are standing up for better protection for lakes, rivers, and drinking water. 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protections\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Call on Christopher Luxon to leave New Zealand\u2019s freshwater protections alone<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/hands-off-fresh-water-protections\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Add my name\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxon\u2019s Government is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people\u2019s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water 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Will has seen first-hand the explosion of the dairy herd in Canterbury over the course of his life, as well as the subsequent pollution of lakes and rivers as a result, which motivated him to join Greenpeace Aotearoa where he now leads the freshwater campaign. \"Follow Will on Twitter","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/wappelbe\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70618,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70617\/revisions\/70618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70617"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=70617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}