resource management
While there have been decades of complaints – from all sides – about the workings of the Resource Management Act (RMA), replacing is proving difficult. The Coalition Government is making another attempt.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, in a land not very far away, there lived a king. True story.
Read MoreRules that stop you using your property as you see fit are bad. Rules that stop other people using their property ... are less so.
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency hearing into seabed mining for phosphate on the Chatham Rise is exposing questions about uncertainty - many big unknowns, including whether the applicant has done its job. If environment groups win this battle, what does it mean for the wider war?
Read MoreLook deeper into RMA reforms and you might find it's more exciting than you think: an Environment Minister taking her axe to urban trees, and the latest in a series of “democracy deficits” - this time affecting Auckland
Read More2012 in review: text of my piece for the Resource Management Journal on the changing legal landscape, and writing loudly on the political wall
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