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Mackenzie Contender for Ecan "farmer Bronwen Murray" Rob Kerr Timaru Herald redorbit Texas 31Jul07
Shock defeats shake up ECan factions Joanna Norris Press 13Oct07
Water fears change ECan, Woods out Paul Gorman Press 15Oct07
Kane bids for ECan chair Robyn Bristow Press 17Oct07
ECan rival criticised on forum re Bob Kirk & Paul Scott, Charlie Gates Robyn Bristow Press 18Oct07
Explaining the science of Canterbury's water "Scientists hope to put controversy to one side and look at the hard science of Christchurch's groundwater and drinking-water system in a public seminar on October 25" NZ Hydrological Society Tim Cronshaw Press 19Oct07
Burke wins tight contest to lead council Beck Eleven Press 25Oct07 + Re-election of Burke 'end of ECan in South' David Bruce ODT
Environment Canterbury Council Committees PR scoop.co.nz 12Nov07
Breakaway talks upset "Hurunui Mayor Garry Jackson is 'deeply concerned' at moves by southern Canterbury councils to break away from Environment Canterbury" Press 01Dec07
Major dairy farm on market for M$29 Neal Wallace ODT 4Dec07
ECan called impediment to growth John Keast Press 19Dec07
Murray tops absentee list of ECan councillors Press 5Jan09
Regional councils 'failing' "Regional councils are ineffective and some have been captured by farmer interests, says a Government environmental adviser. Guy Salmon, executive director of the Ecologic Foundation, handed out a stinging review of the performance of regional councils at yesterday's environmental summit in Auckland. Salmon was a member of the technical advisory group to Environment Minister Nick Smith that recommended abolishing regional councils as part of the minister's streamlining of the Resource Management Act. At the time, Smith's stated that recommendation went beyond the group's terms of reference. Yesterday, Salmon told about 300 people at the Environmental Defence Society's Reform in Paradise conference that regional councils had failed to meet their objectives. In some regions, they had been captured by farmers and farming interests, which meant efforts to manage water as a sustainable resource were also failing. 'Farmers have firm control over a great deal of regional councils. Is this governance formula ever going to deliver us clean water?' Canterbury has 54 per cent of New Zealand's resource consent-allocated water and 67 per cent of the country's irrigated land. Salmon said regional councils suffered from a lack of profile and lack of political authority to implement decisions. 'Even the best of them seem to be failing. We have to wonder if the political authority is there.' He recommended the Government's planned Environmental Protection Authority have regional offices, with two-tiers of government central government and district or city councils. Environment Southland chief executive Ciaran Keogh took issue with Salmon's comments, blaming the Government and the lack of national policy statements and national environmental standards for the regional councils' lack of direction. "The top layer is missing-in-action. We get no support.' However, Salmon told The Press regional authorities had to do better than blame the Government. Environment Canterbury chief executive Bryan Jenkins told the summit regional councils had a future. He wanted them to add 'the role of facilitator of sustainable development to the statutory role as regulator for environmental protection'." Press 9Jun09

Editorial: Diet time for tubby Ecan "difficult teenager is now an adult and it needs to go on a diet.. big is not necessarily better.. region should be chopped off and Ecan's responsibilities delegated to a single unitary authority for South Canterbury" Timaru Herald 13Jun09
ECan 'hung out to dry' by central govt Press 16Jun09
Editorial: Besieged ECan faces big challenges "worst record of any of the nation's 85 councils in handling resource consents within legal time limits.. must reclaim the goodwill of the region.. by demonstrating its relevance and by dispelling the notion that it exists as a block to economic progress" Press 20Jun09

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