The NBR has spotted a spot of Green confusion.
Party co-leader Russel Norman has been stridently criticising the proposals for dairying operations in the Mackenzie Basin which house cows inside.
But on the party’s own website, former Green party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is extolling the virtues of herd homes – sheds erected to house dairy cows and keep them from damaging pasture during wet winters, and reducing nitrous oxide emissions.
The two operations aren’t exactly the same, but the concepts are similar.
I have reservations about the Mackenzie plan but not on environmental grounds. I think Ftizsimons is probably right on this, and if she isn’t any environmental problems will be addressed during the resource consent process.
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