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20 Wednesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
SELWYN RURAL LIFE<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Give Rural NZ a share of $3b<br />
Federated Farmers has some advice for<br />
how the Government should divvy up the<br />
$3 billion infrastructure fund.<br />
The COVID Response and Recovery<br />
Fund was announced as part of Budget<br />
<strong>2020</strong>, with Cabinet announcing how the<br />
fund will be allocated.<br />
The fund, aimed at creating 20,000 jobs<br />
as part of “shovel ready” infrastructure<br />
projects, is in addition to an existing $12<br />
billion towards the New Zealand Upgrade<br />
Programme and existing Provincial<br />
Growth Fund investments.<br />
Of the fund, $708 million will go<br />
towards transport, $670 million towards<br />
community and social development,<br />
$464 million towards housing and urban<br />
development, and $460 million towards<br />
environmental projects.<br />
Investments in the fund include about<br />
$210 million for climate resilience and<br />
flood protection projects, $<strong>15</strong>5 million<br />
for transformative energy projects, about<br />
$180 million for large-scale construction<br />
projects, and $50 million for enhanced<br />
regional digital connectivity.<br />
Federated Farmers President and<br />
commerce spokesperson Andrew<br />
Hoggard says the Government should<br />
have an eye to building longer-term<br />
resilience and putting in infrastructure<br />
that underpins increased primary<br />
industry production.<br />
Following some of the worst droughts on<br />
record, Hoggard says the Government’s<br />
$210 million fund for<br />
climate resilience and<br />
flood protection is a<br />
prime candidate for<br />
boosting community<br />
water storage.<br />
He says the $708<br />
million put aside for<br />
transport shouldn’t<br />
all go to expensive<br />
trainsets, cycleways,<br />
walkways and metro<br />
motorways.<br />
“There needs to be<br />
increased investment<br />
in the maintenance<br />
and improvement<br />
of rural roads and<br />
bridges to better<br />
support transport<br />
connections heavily<br />
relied upon by rural<br />
and provincial people,”<br />
says Hoggard.<br />
“Many rural roads<br />
are already in a poor<br />
state and numerous<br />
rural bridges are<br />
past their designed<br />
lifetimes.”<br />
Hoggard says for the $670 million for<br />
community development, investment<br />
in improving the limited broadband<br />
capability in rural areas — and not just<br />
more communications hubs in provincial<br />
towns — will help level the digital<br />
divide between town and country and<br />
support increased uptake of emerging<br />
technologies on farms to lift productivity<br />
and the nation’s earnings.<br />
“As for the $<strong>15</strong>5 million put aside for<br />
energy projects, there’s a strong case<br />
for improving the reliability of rural<br />
electricity supply, and support for farmscale<br />
and community-scale generation<br />
that moves us further towards that<br />
climate-friendly goal of 100% renewable<br />
energy.”<br />
Source: Rural News<br />
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