Update: The submissions closed at midnight last night and it sounds like many people stepped up. Forest and Bird reported last night that 13,489 people had used their submission form.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of Greenpeace Aotearoa, Russel Norman, shared this on twitter yesterday afternoon:
Govt has on this Friday afternoon released list of organisations it invited to apply to be fast tracked. The usual suspects eg TTR seabed miners. However it has not released the list that will actually be in the bill. They won’t release that list until AFTER the select committee
It is a total corruption of democratic processes. The bill itself gives Ministerial decree powers to 3 ministers to approve individual projects regardless of environmental harm. And the process of passing the bill keeps the list of projects secret until after public submissions
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/minister-releases-fast-track-stakeholder-list
South Island conservationist Geoffery Keey put up this tweet with these two screen shots:
Seven days in politics really is a long time. Chris Bishop on Radio NZ one week apart on whether to release the Fast Track Approvals Bill letters.
Original post:
Last day for submissions on the nature and society destroying Fast-Track Approvals Bill.
Micky has a post up explaining why this Bill is so bad Towards Banana Republic Status
Both Greenpeace and Forest and Bird have submission forms online:
https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/fast-track-approvals-bill-submission
https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/petitions/fight-for-nature
We can also make a submission directly on the New Zealand Parliament website:
From F&B’s Kiwi Conservation Club:
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