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Amber McEwann	NPS Submission		Lead	[-]
Posts: 4 30 Jan, 2009 15:20	Tags : None Hi all I just read the society submission - its great! Am now keenly looking forward to see how things develop... I just want to express my gratitude and extend a big thank you to everyone who got stuck in and made this happen, I feel very proud to be a member of this society. Cheers! Amber
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katemcarthur		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 7 2 Feb, 2009 13:43	I agree with Amber. Kevin, Colin and Carolyn should be commended for writing such a strong submission on behalf of the society and for capturing the discussions at coference and subsequently online so well. Many thanks.
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LimnoloGuy		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 15 4 Feb, 2009 11:30	+1 It's good to see our society rise so admirably to the occasion Might it be worth sending a copy of our submission to other groups that are concerned about the NPS, who might be at the hearings? I'm thinking DoC, F&G, etc. I'm not sure that we can assume that just because members of these groups are in NZFSS, their people at the hearings will have seen our submission. It might be useful to them. Has anyone seen the list of submitters yet?
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LimnoloGuy		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 15 4 Feb, 2009 11:31	And btw, Happy New Year to you all!
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Amber McEwann		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4 4 Feb, 2009 12:15	Limnologuy, I think that circulating our submission is a very good idea (any confidentiality issues here though?), there are some excellent phrases in the text that really capture a few issues so well and I'm sure would enter everyday dialogue in and around the groups you mentioned, thereby growing and gaining momentum as memes... BUT I also think the general public should hear a thing or two - lets do our best to catapult this NPS process into the limelight, rather than let it slip through under the radar like such things are prone to do I'm thinking a press release titled something like "370 NZ freshwater scientists speak out in opposition of proposed freshwater management strategy" regardless of the whats and whys etc, I think the mere fact that such opposition exists would be news to most people - and important news at that Any thoughts? Cheers Amber
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LimnoloGuy		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 15 5 Feb, 2009 17:27	You're right about that Amber, submissions can get hidden under a great deal of burocracy and technicalities - not to mention a mountain of other submissions (though I'd be surprised if there is a "mountain" worth of submissions on the Freshwater NPS). Do we have a list of submitters yet? Looking forward to seeing that. Confidentiality is not an issue with these things because submissions and hearings are in the public domain (someone from MfE correct me if I'm wrong about this particular NPS process). That's why it's important to make sure that submissions are a good representation of facts and points of view. We've gone through the trouble of carefully putting this together. I agree with you that spreading it around is a good idea because it will let our position be more widely known and will potentially assist others either in their presentations at the hearing or in other endeavours to improve freshwater management in NZ.
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