what will be the long term effect of intensive dairy farming in the south east paticularly ,the run off into the water course and the alteratons to the land scape irrigation and chopping down of all the trees and the amount of bovine gases nitrate run off etc.
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Posted 2 years ago #
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hey you guys whats your opinion on this Gerry you must know something,
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The list of effects is probably as long as our arms - but the one I've heard most recently is about turning the landscape from brown/red to bright green.
From what we hear up here, there won't be any watercourses left to pollute by the time they've had all their water extracted for irrigation.Posted 2 years ago # -
I think thats pretty much true for sure the east coast is gone forever as pure the odd token reserve .
I used to think green was a clean pure sign but no more ,altough i sometimes make a living off it the dairy industry that is, everytime i see another row of macrocarpa burning or fields levelled with not a weed or a pest for miles ,irrigators etc i feel sick .
Last year sometimes you could not see up the waitaki when i was workin there for the smoke of the fires it was like armageddon and i was a very small cog of it .Bad real Bad but big profits and heck thats what makes the world go round ,there must be another way surely.Posted 2 years ago # -
Don't know if you've spotted it yet, but there's an amazing photo in that article on the Homepage about dairying, of an irrigated-area - bright green circle in the middle of the Mackenzie - makes you think maybe "green" isn't always so great!!
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Its frightening isnt it,hell but i think the majority of folk just want more monies and dont think green ha perhaps i should say brown .
Its all lip service with any goverment to go green we need to be self sufficent and be prepared to go back to basics but cant make big profits, dilema there for the fat cats of the land.Posted 2 years ago # -
Really interesting article in tonight's news:
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5743713/niwa-launches-canterbury-water-study/
They say 70% of NZ's irrigated land is in Canterbury!!
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Very interesting article yes i am afraid its making the east coast the future industrial waste land ,the continuall daming of rivers its so outdated and destructive not many are honest enough to stand up against the power of money.
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