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The Star Thursday November 19 2020 38 OPINION and enhance that work. IF YOU’RE That work one included of the setting thousands of up Cantabrians a climate-change who head integration to the lakes programme over summer in the Long-term to enjoy a Plan classic 2018-28, Kiwi ensuring camping climate experience change you was might actively notice considered posters across and advertising workstreams, reminding increasing people visibility of the of harmful the science impact and what of poo we on know water about quality the impact – and of to climate always use a change loo. on Canterbury, and liaising on While the issue it may with be iwi taboo and to regional discuss partners, at other dinner local authorities table, pollution and central from government. human and dog poo As is an organisation, issue that we we need have to talk also about. made This significant is because progress just in a small addressing amount our of own E.coli greenhousegas emissions, in poo can with have our a massive bacteria found impact Christchurch on a waterway building – receiving it can a make “market-leading” swimmers very energy sick efficiency and affect rating mahinga of 5.0 out kai of food 6 in the gathering to and February the māuri on the (life National force) of year the Australian water. Built Environment Rating Unfortunately, System New we Zealand. had an example The building’s of such E.coli features pollution include 184 solar panels which can event at peak summer last generate more than 55,000 year at Lake Ruataniwha. kilowatt hours of electricity per This resulted in health alert year. measures There has that been closed a 26% the reduction main swimming per staff member area for in several emissions days, impacting since 30 June thousands 2010. We of now people’s have long-anticipated access to electric summer and hybrid holiday. vehicles and hope to have half our fleet hybrid or long-range electric by The 2022. Twizel Carbon community emissions was, from understandably, air travel across the very organisation concerned about are offset the via health our own of their biodiversity lake – none programmes. more so than members of the According Upper Waitaki to a Madworld Water Zone report Committee, in 2019, our gross including emissions local were residents, 2253 tonnes councillors of carbon and dioxide runanaga representatives. (CO2) equivalent, compared with removals The committee of 7883 tonnes requested of CO2- a briefing equivalent on through the incident our efficiency and Environment efforts and from Canterbury forestry planting shared the across results 2700 of hectares. our science and compliance The changing investigation. climate will This pose systematically many risks to life addressed and livelihood the most in Canterbury. likely pollution In recent contributors we have and seen found how that occasional, human poo years was but extreme, a likely source. weather events have had A dedicated huge effects community on residents and working infrastructure group around was set the up, South including Island. the local council, Ruataniwha The driest Rowing parts Club, of our runanga region, and along tourism the Marlborough representatives, coast and to make across a much plan to of the prevent Canterbury a poorelated health alert happening Plains, are expected to get even drier. North-westerly storms are again. predicted to become more intense, with This torrential plan includes alpine more rainstorms water monitoring, turning our braided extra toilets rivers for into the impending influx of visitors these roaring summer rapids, holidays fuelling landslides and causing widespread and erosion. a targeted Canterbury’s awareness-raising coastal campaign communities to remind will be threatened people that Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz since Environment Canterbury climate-change emergency Taking the taboo out of talking poo Environment Canterbury Chair Jenny Hughey by sea-level rise this century and our productive and protected land jeopardised by the arrival and spread of new, exotic weeds and pests from warmer climates. All these eventualities have to be planned and prepared for, and Environment Canterbury will remain in the vanguard of these climate change efforts. One example is the $40 million Waimakariri River flood protection project, completed late last year. The network of floodgates and stopbanks will protect half a million people and $8 billion of community and business assets from a possible “super flood”. The last major flood was in December 1957, when parts of Coutts Island in Belfast and Kainga were swamped by river flow peaking at 3990 cubic metres per second (cumecs). The protection scheme has been designed to defend Christchurch from a flood of as much as 6500 cumecs. Environment Canterbury’s leadership of biodiversity and the only place they should poo is biosecurity programmes is also underpinned in a loo. The by committee climate-change will be concerns. launching this campaign soon, as Canterbury’s part of its yearly distinct Love braided Our rivers Lakes and promotion, unique wetlands if you face have many the chance challenges. to share The the rivers message, form a please vital do. Meanwhile, ecological we link continue and provide an abundant food supply and to nesting prevent grounds other pollution for 26 species to water, of native including birds farming – most classified run-off and as threatened and facing increased pressures due to river system change. Wetlands are also ecosystems at-risk nationally and regionally, degraded by draining, damming and diversion affecting their ability to sequester carbon, cleanse freshwater and mitigate flooding, as well as impacting on biodiversity and mahinga kai. With biosecurity, we are putting greater emphasis on the risks of new pests establishing in Canterbury. Warming temperatures, changing soils and new land uses mean new weeds especially, will be able to gain a better foothold across the region. More broadly, we have to curb reliance on fossil fuels and find environmentally suitable alternatives, such as electricity and hydrogen, to power our public transport. When my predecessor Steve Lowndes retired as chair of this council late last year, he highlighted some of the big changes on the way. He was optimistic we would be able to urban stormwater, through our deal with the “pressing issues” of climate rules, change regulations and sustainability. and encouragement I share his of confidence. good management As a community, practices. and as a council, we are While taking human some poo bold might steps to ensure only make we are a in up a better a very place small to cope per cent of the overall water quality with problem, the changing it can climate and the tests it will set us. But have a there proportionally will always be big a impact need to on do our more. summer holidays. It’s a year since Environment Canterbury declared a climate-change emergency JENNY HUGHEY explains what the council has been doing. The formal declaration of a state of climate emergency across Canterbury was one of the most serious, and colourful, moments in the regional council’s more than 30-year history. A year ago this Saturday, at 11.49am, Environment Canterbury became New Zealand’s first council to proclaim such an emergency, formally dedicating itself to consideration of climate change at the heart of all it does. The declaration highlighted that all the work Environment Canterbury does – from freshwater management to biodiversity and biosecurity, transport and urban development to air quality, and also regional leadership – has a climate change focus. Currently, under the Resource Management Act, regional councils are required only to adapt to climate change, not mitigate it – that responsibility is the Government’s, but could change. Even in ‘adapt mode’ many of Environment Canterbury’s existing policies and plans already contribute to reduced emissions. In declaring the climate emergency, the Council noted it would continue to show leadership on climate-change and do so without adding new programmes at ratepayers’ expense. It also gave staff a clear mandate to continue and enhance that work. That work included setting up a climate-change integration programme in the Long-term Plan 2018-28, ensuring climate change was actively considered across workstreams, increasing visibility of the science and what we know about the impact of climate change on Canterbury, and liaising on the issue with iwi and regional partners, other local authorities and central government. As an organisation, we have also made significant progress in addressing our own greenhousegas emissions, with our Christchurch building receiving a “market-leading” energy efficiency rating of 5.0 out of 6 in the year to February on the National Australian Built Environment Rating System New Zealand. The building’s features include 184 solar panels which can generate more than 55,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. There has been a 26% reduction per staff member in emissions since 30 June 2010. We now have access to electric and hybrid vehicles and hope to have half our Environment Canterbury Chair Jenny Hughey fleet hybrid or long-range electric by 2022. Carbon emissions from air travel across the organisation are offset via our own biodiversity programmes. According to a Madworld report in 2019, our gross emissions were 2253 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, compared with removals of 7883 tonnes of CO2- equivalent through our efficiency efforts and from forestry planting across 2700 hectares. The changing climate will pose many risks to life and livelihood in Canterbury. In recent years we have seen how occasional, but extreme, weather events have had huge effects on residents and infrastructure around the South Island. The driest parts of our region, along the Marlborough coast and across much of the Canterbury Plains, are expected to get even drier. North-westerly storms are predicted to become more intense, with torrential alpine rainstorms turning our braided rivers into roaring rapids, fuelling landslides and causing widespread erosion. Canterbury’s coastal communities will be threatened by sea-level rise this century and our productive and protected land jeopardised by the arrival and spread of new, exotic weeds and pests from warmer climates. All these eventualities have to be planned and prepared for, and Environment Canterbury will remain in the vanguard of these climate change efforts. One example is the $40 million Waimakariri River flood protection project, completed late last year. The network of floodgates and stopbanks will protect half a million people and $8 billion of community and business assets from a possible “super flood”. The last major flood was in December 1957, when parts of Coutts Island in Belfast and Kainga were swamped by river flow peaking at 3990 cubic metres per second (cumecs). The protection scheme has been designed to defend Christchurch from a flood of as much as 6500 cumecs. Environment Canterbury’s leadership of biodiversity and biosecurity programmes is also underpinned by climate-change concerns. Canterbury’s distinct braided rivers and unique wetlands face many challenges. The rivers form a vital ecological link and provide an abundant food supply and nesting grounds for 26 species of native birds – most classified as • Cr Jenny Hughey is chair of the Canterbury Regional Council (Environment Canterbury) threatened and facing increased pressures due to river system change. Wetlands are also ecosystems at-risk nationally and regionally, degraded by draining, damming and diversion affecting their ability to sequester carbon, cleanse freshwater and mitigate flooding, as well as impacting on biodiversity and mahinga kai. With biosecurity, we are putting greater emphasis on the risks of new pests establishing in Canterbury. Warming temperatures, changing soils and new land uses mean new weeds especially, will be able to gain a better foothold across the region. More broadly, we have to curb reliance on fossil fuels and find environmentally suitable alternatives, such as electricity and hydrogen, to power our public transport. When my predecessor Steve Lowndes retired as chair of this council late last year, he highlighted some of the big changes on the way. He was optimistic we would be able to deal with the “pressing issues” of climate change and sustainability. I share his confidence. As a community, and as a council, we are taking some bold steps to ensure we are in a better place to cope with the changing climate and the tests it will set us. But there will always be a need to do more.
Chris Lynch; People’s Choice Chris Lynch’s on air brain explosion calling the People’s Choice representatives on the Linwood-Central- Heathcote Community Board a “bunch of bastards” should be dismissed as the rantings of a yet another lunatic disaffected Nat. Sadly, The Star, November 12, , which has responded to Lynch adds nothing to the story. Lynch’s claim that: “I am not biased, I just tell it how it is” must sit alongside “common sense” and “not suffering fools easily” as the preferred moronic clichés of the arrogant yet intellectually lazy right wing. By resorting to: “I just tell it how it is” as a defence, Lynch exposes himself as being incapable of, or unwilling to engage in independent critical thought as the People’s Choice councillors he accuses of group-think. – David Marra, Linwood I am a retired community board member and long-time opponent of party politics in local civic governance. Chris Lynch’s comment highlights again the negatives of the Labour Party machine’s intrusion into local body Chris Lynch Christchurch politics. I did note the Wellington address authorisation on local candidate hoardings during the last council elections. Centralisation and party political block voting is now a very large influencer of local decisions. Cr McLellan’s comment he has no time for Lynch because he is supportive of two other colleagues is indicative of the problem. As in America, political tribalism has led to the disrespectful dismissal of those you disagree with because of association. We have seen block voting on several significant council issues negating the input or opinion of Independents on council. Recent cross-overs of parliamentary MPs into local body politics, prompted me last year to write to local Labour MPs seeking assurances of no undue influence or financial subsidising LETTERS 39 following clearly documented incidences in the past. The arm-twisting now afoot to change the leadership of a local board via party “numbers” is counter-intuitive to “community board.” The ward name “Central” perhaps exemplifies the conflict with central-ised powers elsewhere (ie Parliament in Wellington), The by-election Labour candidate, who defeated six competing Independent candidates, including myself, because we split our votes, has no right to a say over changing an existing chairman, who was rightly elected over a year ago from an existing board. That is just cynical vote-packing. – John Stringer, Papanui Fireworks I would definitely like to see fireworks banned – altogether preferably, but at least sales to the general public. For all the usual reasons – animal welfare, fires caused both to properties and homes and wild fires. It’s difficult to sleep properly for days on end and sometimes weeks, both before and after Guy Fawkes night, as well as any other time people have saved them for other occasions only relevant to themselves. – Tessa Holland FOCUS ON HEALTH Amazing health miracles from the silkworm Serrapeptase an enzyme produced in silkworms may become one of the most widely used natural health solutions for its ability to replace the majority of anti-inflammatory drugs and bypass operations. It is nature’s answer to pain, chronic inflammation and clogged arteries. Enzymes are essential for life. Constantly working to build and regenerate the body, they help digest food, break down toxins and cleanse the blood, in addition to thousands of other functions. A lack of enzymes in the body leads to food intolerances, allergies, digestive issues, disease and poor health. Studies show an average 70-year old has only 20 percent of the enzymes found in the body of a 20-year old. Serrapeptase is a natural antiinflammatory, which can clean, clear and reduce inflammation while dissolving non-living tissue including blood clots, cysts, arterial plaque and mucus. One of its major benefits is its ability to reduce pain. The serrapeptase enzyme was first found in the intestine of the silkworm in the late 1960’s. The silkworm uses it to dissolve the hard cocoon, allowing the moth to escape as well as to digest the tough mulberry leaves it feeds on. Serrapeptase can now be produced commercially by a fermentation process of the microorganism Serriata E15. It is prescribed by doctors across Europe and Asia. amaZing health Benefits from the silkworm Thursday November 19 2020 The Star Clinical studies over the last 40 years have shown serrapeptase to have remarkable benefits in a vast range of health conditions including; blocked arteries, cardiovascular, arthritis, asthma, lung conditions, pain, tumors, autoimmune disease and many more. In Germany, Dr. Hans Nieper clinically researched serrapeptase and found it could clear blocked arteries and prevent the need for bypass operations. U.K. pharmacist Dennis Gore talked on BBC radio about the dramatic results he has had with serrapeptase. One case was a man in his 60’s who had been a heavy smoker, was wheeled into his pharmacy. He was breathless due to emphysema and COPD and could hardly talk. He was on antibiotics, oxygen and getting bad infections. Dennis prescribed him serrapeptase and three weeks later the man walked into his pharmacy, with no wheelchair and no breathlessness and said to Dennis he was no longer on antibiotics, nor oxygen cylinders and was feeling great. Serrapeptase has been shown to be very safe supplement and according to researchers can be used with most medications. However let your doctor know as medications may need reducing or stopping as the need for them reduces. Serrapeptase and more information is available from the natural health advisers at Marshall’s Health & Natural Therapy, 101 Seaview Road, New Brighton, Phone: (03) 388-5757. We want to hear your views on the issues affecting life in Canterbury Send emails to: barry@starmedia.kiwi Letters may be edited or rejected at The Star's discretion. Letters should be about 150 words. A name, postal address and phone number should be provided. Please use your real name, not a nickname, alias, pen name or abbreviation. Serrapeptase, an enzyme first discovered in the silkworm, could become one of the most widely used natural health remedies due to its ability to potentially replace the majority of anti-inflammatory drugs & bypass operations. Serrapeptase is a natural anti-inflammatory enzyme that according to research can clean, clear & reduce inflammation while safely dissolving non-living tissue such as blood clots, cysts, arterial plaque & mucus. 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