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