Submission 79 Paul Barton

Improvements for inclusion:

1. Wider world view attitude in legislating

2. Science and management based solution

3. Fair, moral and ethical apportionment

Centre of the Separate Self

Awareness

EGO

Awareness Ego

Four Quadrates

• I, We, It and Its

• Big Three: Art, Morals and Science

Pre Trans Fallacy

An Individual – Map of Building Functional and Global Structures in Consciousness

Farm Nitrogen input to lake leached May to July

Animal Annual Stock Numbers cap wrong

Change to animal number/management at critical period (May to July)

Mitigate leaching

1. Soil management

2. Pasture management

3. Farm management (Stock movement)

4. Science and liaison

Extensive relative to Intensive Farming HAS:

Large paddocks

Poor quality pasture

Little over seeding

More pugging

Higher soil compaction

More overland flow

Less races

Large infrequent fert.

Inaccurate fert.

More gorse

Less retired bush land

More grazing of retired land

Poor carcass disposal

Intensive Farmers Tend to be Responsive, Reliable and More Caring

• Farms have higher stocking but also

• Better Nitrogen removal due to quality pasture growth all year round, better soil quality and more interactive and caring farm management practices.

• Science, liaison and good management will reduce nitrogen leaching

• Likely to adopt housing or out catchment period

Poor management on extensive farm meeting cap

Small size farm- gorse infestation

Small farm - rank unutilised pasture

Overland Flow on an extensive farm already meeting Cap

Intensive Farm over cap - High Quality Pasture

Intensive (Under seeding) small paddock management

Identification of Land Ownership for fairness

Gorse Research, Incentive scheme, Council Actions

Do as you Say, get it right and what is the comeback?

Long Term Implications-3rd attempt, Forestry

Need a better way to cap or legislate Nitrogen loss than Stock

Numbers Gorse scheme need review and

tied to land title

PHOSPHORUS: Moves in dust and water

Phosphorus Control : 4WD, Fertilisation, Soil Management/overland Flow

Before

After 4WD event (10 passes)

Include Phosphorus Control via Education, Liaison, Soils Management Practices and figure out a legislative path

Climate Change – no plane??

Planet level thinking and action

Climate Change Influences are more fundamental to our survival than small N and P increases in water Bodies. More ethical and moral to Legislate climate change first . We have unrestrained tourism development

Personal responsibility for our actions and influences

Fair Apportionment of Pollution Quota

Land Treatment of Sewage, original design and direction, example and $ versus Farming, Conditions Breach

The Receiving Waters - Improve Nutrient Removal and Create Jobs, Revenue and Offset Fossil Fuel Use: Native species, Algal culture, Fishery, Bio Diesel, etc.

Native Birds are (irrationally) more important than native fish

Integrated “Receiving Waters” investigation and plan.

TROUT and Alternatives? My God

Why are these a pest and Trout not? Was there Public Debate?? Eradication is impossible so manage.

Fish farming or fishery maximisation

Fisheries (Fresh) are the highest producers of protein per unit area of all farming systems

Aqua Culture : Edible Alga, High filtration

Bio Diesel Culture to off set tourism carbon foot print

Waste to a Resource

Kakahi – Native, most powerful filtering freshwater mussels in the world, Investigated to clean catchment water and provide a economic benefit? Koaro host/ decline.

Integral mindfulness in all quadrates

Art, Morals, and Science in legislative design, hard creative works - watch reduction into one quadrate

Summary: The Cap limiting stock numbers on farms over 40ha:

1. Narrow view, Ethnocentric Council, Poor economic overview of Impacts to region

2. Lacks inclusion of current research and technologies

3. Not science or management based in solution but legislator’s heaven

4. Examples of sewage, landfill and gorse shows Councils poor example to farmers

Summary Continued

• Resource Management Act : accountability of pollution quota from farm, tourism, sewage, etc

• Unfair, apportionment of pollution quota

• Only on select group of farm owners and takes no account of extensive and intensive management and style (art) in a scientific way in Draft Legislation.

Recommendations

• Direct Council to reassess legislative solution to management Nitrogen and Phosphorus inputs to Lake Rotorua and down stream receiving waters

• Develop legislation based upon science and sound farm management solutions that give farmers freedom to manage within reasonable constraints.

• Investigate economic options to remove nutrients from the lakes

Recommendations Continued

• Re assess land treatment system from original design/ recommendations and have Councils rise to the level of examples

• Assess all pollution activities in the catchment ranking climate change pollutants as the most important and be global in legislating nutrients inputs to lakes and a river that flow to the sea

Our problems need our creativity – always a way forward with better understanding and communication

How much can we change?? Thank you for the opportunity to express my thoughts. May these ideas assist oneness in the functioning of the Universe