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Wednesday 22 August 2018
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Upper Moutere school students, from left, Grace W, Ollie W, Theo B, Zac W, Phoebe E and Saffron B all agree that the installation of a shade sail will make a big improvement on the school during the summer months. Photo: Amy Russ.
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Campaign puts ‘mistruths’ in the spotlight A supporters’ group for the Community Dam, which they say is the best storage option for the region, has activated a multi-media publicity campaign to correct what it calls ‘spin and mistruths’ about the long-standing project. People for the Community Dam is running the campaign on radio, print and digital over the next week, in the lead up to a Tasman District Council meeting on
28 August, when councillors will decide whether to continue planning for a dam. The group is facilitated by Morgan Williams, former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, and is made up of concerned citizens with wideranging community interests. Morgan says the group wants to remind councillors and our diverse community that despite the
loud noise from a small minority, there are a great many of the district’s 52,400 ratepayers who support the Community Dam as the best option for secure water supplies and a healthy Waimea river. “We are also acutely aware that the dam’s project partners, Central Government, landowners and Nelson City, are providing over 50% of the needed funding - monies that will not be available
for alternatives,” he says. “Those many millions are only for the community dam, so if it’s not built then Tasman ratepayers will have to pay the entire cost of even more expensive urban water supply alternatives.” He says 18 years of quality research, study of options and community consultations, has led to the Community Dam being assessed as the best option for
the region. People for the Community Dam is concerned that some councillors’ focus is getting distracted by perceived risks of building the dam when the risks of not securing our water supplies are vastly greater. People for a Community Dam is facilitated by the CWS Advisory Group, which was established last year to ‘voluntarily provide advice and information’.
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