For the Health of the River: Protecting Waikato during Tāmaki's water crisis w/ Nate Rew, July 2 2020

Environment Minister David Parker announced this week that Auckland Council’s proposal, to more than double their daily water draw from Waikato river, will be fast tracked through the consent process. The Wire have been discussing the fast tracking of certain projects through the consent process for a couple of weeks now, but this week Mary-Margaret spoke to Nate Rew of Te Ara Whatu about the risk of this particular project. Waikato-Tainui are trying to protect their river from this, as they say it will cause long term harm, and that consultation was never attempted with them. Mary-Margaret asked Nate about breaches to Te Tiriti of this nature, and the framing of land issues by media as iwi ‘blocking’ a solution.